DAY EIGHT | Dreams and Goals #2

Healthy discontent

If you and I are to give expression to our full potential, we need to have a real dream, a daring dream, a big dream … one that will challenge and drive us onward.

The daydream focuses on the destination and the daring dream focuses on the journey.

The daydream cultivates unhealthy expectations, but the daring dream cultivates healthy discontent.

The goal is to allow feelings of discontent to pull us to become stronger, motivated, focused, determined, and passionate about becoming all that we are created to be.

Healthy discontent propels us towards our dream. It gives us reason and motivation to make changes and plans – it gives us fuel to add to the fire of our daring dream.

• Exercise:
  Identify one area of your life where you feel a healthy discontent (meaning you feel motivated and passionate to make a positive change). Then identify one area of your life where you feel an unhealthy discontent (meaning you feel jealous, defeated, or entitled). How can you transition the unhealthy discontent into something more positive?
  My area of healthy discontent is effectivnes and success. And the area of unhealthy discontent is sometimes my physical training.