Dealing With Complacency

What are you taking for granted in your life? Which area of your life gets the least attention?

Our time, goals and priorities sometimes do not always reflect what we value most in life. I've come to realise from my own life that the things that are working are those things that get the least of my attention. We often take it for granted that those things functioning require less attention compared to those not working.

We take our health for granted until we come down with illness.

We take our partners for granted until our marriages or relationships become threatened.

We take our children for granted until they begin to display defiance in behaviours.

We take marketing for granted until there's a decline in our sales/turn over.

We take our spiritual growth for granted until we come under series of temptations and spiritual attacks.

We take our goals for granted until our lives start to spin in circles without progress.

This feeling of self-satisfaction is known as complacency. Complacency tells you everything is okay when in fact, trouble looms. It gives you that satisfying feeling that you've reached your zenith and can therefore take some break off hard work. Complacency assures you, 'you've arrived' and therefore kills innovation and creativity.

In complacency, something is always sacrificed for the other. One thing is given up to have the other. You sacrifice working on your goals for a 2-hour telenovela. You sacrifice weekends to bond with your children for hanging out with friends.

In most cases, complacency is not about what's more important rather its about convenience, what keeps you within your comfort zone. When you compromise the time with kids for friends its because you're more at ease with friends than with kids who burn you out.

You can begin to deal with complacency by becoming more aware of what you want in life and guide your choices by it. Self satisfaction can also be overcome by constantly reminding yourself, you're not there yet, there's still room for improvement. You also need discipline to work on the things you value most in life, that add up to u becoming who you were created to be. Self-satisfaction is dangerous, it creates vacuum in your life and relationships without you knowing.

Protect that which is important to you from complacency.

Have a flourishing day!