The Choice To Be Satisfied
I feel great about what I’ve done. I’m content where I am
We rarely feel this way. In fact most of us (including myself) are perennially dissatisfied though we tend to accomplish a lot of things.
- We remember the 2 things we didn’t strike out from our to-do list
- We remember the 1 failed assignment at work
- We beat ourselves over the one argument or stupidity we committed in a relationship.
And we hold on to it forever. Experts call this Zeigarnik Effect.
The psychological tendency to remember an uncompleted or an unpleasant task/memory rather than a completed one.
I tend to press the “try harder” button when I experience this uncomfortable feeling. A friend told me that she pictures me as a track runner jumping hurdle after hurdle on an endless track, only to keep running until there are no hurdles.
Without rest, pause, and the choice to be satisfied- I end up getting myself burnt out.
We all have a choice to be satisfied, and that’s a decision we have to seek every single day.