Complacency is a Killer

It is a mindset to do just enough to get by. It is a battle I think all of us face in some area of our life. It becomes a habit and erodes away at the standards that we have.

You are never truly stopped in your growth or regression in life. You are either getting better or worse at the skills and talents you have been blessed with. There is an apathy that is at the root cause of being stuck.

I know there are a lot of people who have different definitions of apathy. I keep mine as simple as possible Apathy to me is the lack of love of whatever your doing being or becoming. The definition seems to fit for me.

The entry point for intervention of complacency is this- Many of us are good at things. The problem with being good at things is that it makes it real hard to be great.

I would put to the reader the main reason we become stuck is due to a standard we set or our "good level" we make a certain income level and we feel we are making it or "good". Money isn't everything I know but it is really easy to measure and something universally understood.

So you sit at a benchmark of "good" with your income. The moment you slip below that amount and detect that you are not making the same amount I guarantee you will fight like mad to return to that same level of income. The urgency will shock you. It may not be you that detects your income standard isn't as high as it should be. Someone else may help you to realize you are slipping in your income.

You want to know how simple it is then to build out of complacency?

You have to never be satisfied with the person you have become. It is not to say become neurotic. Here is the balance to all this. Be easily pleased but never satisfied. As soon as you feel you've arrived your standards are set and complacency and apathy sets in.

Strive for more. Set attainable goals that leads you to believe you can become more. There is something very righteous about understanding that your potential is God's gift to you, what you do with it is your gift to him.

Joshua Andrus
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