Contentment and Comparision

Contentment is not a lack of ambition. It’s not a lack of goals. Contentment means your happiness doesn’t depend on your circumstances.

How do you eliminate discontent? You eliminate the cause: comparing. We compare everything in this country — lawns, cars, husbands and wives, clothes, the education of our kids (we even put “My kid was Student of the Month” on car bumpers).

Whenever you compare, you’re going to become discontent. You’ve got to learn to stop comparing yourself to others.

Contentment does not come naturally; it is something you have to learn.