Let's say you're 35 years old. You have a home, a family, a job that pays well enough to cover the bills plus a little. Sounds pretty good. And yet from all directions you hear you need a bigger house, a fancier car, a better cell phone. You need more stuff. Your company says "You need to advance your career and move up the ladder or you're not a productive worker and we'll find somebody else."
But what if I like where I am? I don't want to work more - even for more money. There are other things I'd rather be doing with my life, and I have - *gasp* - enough.
If your boss told you "I'd like to promote you to head of the department - more money, more responsibility." How many of us would dare say "No thanks, I'm good."? How long do you think you'd last there?
A while ago, I was asked to speak at a company meeting and finished my presentation with the following observation - I don't think a single person in the room got it.
There is a word in the English language that many people don’t seem to have a good grasp of and don’t use or think about very often, and because of it, will never find true satisfaction and fulfillment.
That word is… enough.
When have you made enough money? When is your house or car big enough? When do you own enough stuff?
If you can’t come up with answers to these questions – if you can’t sit back and say “That’s enough – let someone else have some” – then when you die, you didn’t live “enough”
