Contentment: How to Be Happy With What You Have

You Already Have Everything You Need

The holiday season is, typically, hyper-focused on gratitude but it can also be a time when we start comparing ourselves to others and feeling like we’re falling short. If you’re less than merry about the state of your life, you may just need to shift your perspective until you find contentment.

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Now, and any time of year, you can jump-start yourself back into a mindset of contentment. While you can always make changes to your life for the better, there’s likely so much good already going on. You just need to take a moment to see, hear, and feel it. Here are five ways to be happy with what you already have.

1. Count Your Blessings (Literally)
The word of the year and recent years passed is gratitude, and having a gratitude practice is a thing now. Gratitude journals exist and studies have been conducted proving how important gratitude is for a happy life. When your contentment well is running low, stop and look around you—then start naming everything that’s going great. At the very least, you’re breathing, likely without any assistance. That’s huge! Keep going, even if you’re counting the micro-blessings. (You have ice cream in the freezer.) and the macro-blessings (You have heat in the dead of winter too.) Keep this up and you’ll absolutely feel happier because what you appreciate about your life will be in the forefront of your mind.

2. Focus on the Positive
There are almost always at least two ways to look at every situation or circumstance you encounter. You can focus on what’s not working and what could happen in the future that’s negative. Or, you can focus on the things you’re grateful for, what’s going right for you now, and what opportunities you may have coming your way. It’s a constant choice you have to make moment by moment: to be positive about life or be negative. You probably won’t jump for joy if you’re fired from your job or you get dumped by your partner, but choosing to look at the upside to a challenge will help you find contentment.

3. Stay in the Moment
Being satisfied with where you’re at means staying grounded in the current moment. Thinking about mistakes you’ve made in the past, circumstances that didn’t go your way, or worrying about what’s to come, all keep you in a constant state of distress. On the flip side, focusing on the present moment will give you the freedom to feel a sense of peace and contentment too.

4. Limit Your Time on Social Media
To compare is to despair and, unfortunately, we all have constant access to the best comparison tools around—namely, Facebook, Instagram, and celebrity news sites. When you have constant reminders of the fun everyone else is having, the opportunities others have that you don’t, and photos that showcase it all, it can be a major challenge to feel contentment. However, cutting down on the time you spend scrolling through social media and reading the news can help you put the focus right back on where it belongs—on you.

5. Reach Out to Those Less Fortunate
If all else fails, try walking a mile in someone else’s shoes—or at least get a close look at what it would mean to not have enough in your life, whether it’s food, money or shelter. By volunteering and meeting people who have it harder than you, you’ll soon learn that your problems are minor in comparison. Plus, when you see how grateful and appreciative people who have next to nothing can be, you’ll likely get a necessary wake-up call that it doesn’t take much to find contentment.

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