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Self-Satisfaction
By peace | November 14, 2007
Finding Peace Through Self-Satisfaction
Do you focus on what you want or what you need?
In your constant need to attain, grow, acquire more, and become all that you can be, you may often find yourself dissatisfied with your life and those around you. On the other hand, it is all right to be dissatisfied when you turn this emotion into productive, constructive action. Being dissatisfied can be a motivator to try harder, do better, and be your best. However, being dissatisfied and simply complaining or bemoaning your fate and doing nothing about changing yourself and your life’s circumstances is not alright. Doing nothing is dangerous, and it’s an easy trap to fall into.
Seeking satisfaction in all that you are allows you to become all that you can be. Seeking satisfaction takes energy. Being dissatisfied doesn’t. If you strive to accept yourself and find pleasure in your life, you walk in life with strength and empowerment. Victims see the world in terms of things being done to them. The strong see the world in terms of the things they can do.
Satisfaction — feeling deeply and fully satisfied with yourself and the life you are building — is built on the smallest of things, the little moments in time that build relationships and create memories. It’s when you did what you thought you could not or gave what you thought you did not have. It’s the smile you gave to another. It’s the sense of self you created by facing your fears. It’s about looking forward, not backwards.
Acts Of Satisfaction
- Give thanks for all that you are and all that you have
- Appreciate the little things in life
- Love the wrinkles and laugh lines that mark th eexperiences that make you who you are today
- Love the gifts you’ve been given
- Love your body
- Respect yourself
- Love others
- Lend your time and energy to a cause greater than your own
- Focus on the little things that give great joy
- Make your self-talk empowering
- Reflect on those in your past and remind yourself that they, too, did the best with what they had at the time and forgive.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ~ Gandhi
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