Did your parents tell you to be content with what you have, when you were growing up? Mine did and I know they meant well. Sometimes people ask, “Why can’t you just be happy with your job?” or career, income, status, etc. That desire in your gut is an often misunderstood and maligned part of the healthy you.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s essential to be content with what we have. I strongly believe showing gratitude for all the good in our lives is a must if we are continue receiving. However, it is my belief that, to quell desire on its existence alone is a mistake, if we are to grow, develop, and reach our full potential.<\/p>\n
Growing up in a religiously devout \u00a0home, I was taught, “Having food and clothing, be content.” I let this become my glass ceiling<\/a> and figured as long as there’s food on the table and a roof over our heads, that’s all we really need.<\/p>\n As I grew older, became responsible for my own income, and started a family, that’s were my income stayed. Just enough, but nothing more.<\/p>\n I woke up one day and realized, that is not a legacy I want to leave my children. In fact I realized how this idea of suppressing desire simply on account of needing to be content and happy was not going to set my children on a healthy path to grow, development and becoming all they are capable of becoming in their lives. Yes, they need to understand the immense value of gratitude, and the knowledge of how desire is instrumental, essential actually, in achieving their dreams<\/a> and living a full life.<\/p>\n Here is the understanding I want to leave them with.<\/p>\n Here are the 6 steps Napoleon Hill<\/a> outlined as the method for turning desire for riches into its financial equivalent, paraphrased of course. He came upon it after studying 500 of the most successful people of his time.<\/p>\n\n
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