Complacency is given.
Content is earned.
Complacency is sitting on the couch.
Content is sitting on the couch after a workout.
Complacency is eating crappy foods.
Content is eating crappy foods on your cheat day after an entire week of clean eating.
Complacency is binging watching TV.
Content is binge watching TV after a week of reading, writing, meditating, and contributing.
Complacency is what happens when we follow our lazy inclinations and accept regression.
Content is what happens when we follow our curiosities and challenge ourselves to grow.
Both complacency and contentment represent a sort of acceptance.
The major difference, that’s imperative to understand, is the trajectory of where you’re heading from that state of acceptance.
The trajectory of complacency is an increasingly downward slope towards atrophy, dullness, and discontentment.
And the trajectory of contentment is an increasingly upward slope towards strength, sharpness, and joy.
Don’t get it twisted.
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