Are You Complacent?

Feeling Stuck?Glorious morning!

I felt inspired this morning to talk about complacency. The quote we will look at is from Brian Tracy.

“ Success leads to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success “

First, a bit about Brian Tracy. He was born in 1944. He is a Canadian-american motivational public speaker and self development author. He has written over 80 books. I’m thinking complacency has no room in his house, lol.

Let’s dive into the definition of complacency. It basically means, getting too comfortable in life or a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder. We can't expand our horizons if we have fallen into a state of complacency. Imagine mankind getting complacent after they created the horse and carriage for transportation. Imagine them getting so excited that they found this more convenient way of travel that they just accepted that it was just about as good as life can get . Or imagine mankind all getting complacent when disaster strikes from a tornado and everyone who was not affected by it, assumes that help is on its way. To achieve anything, or to even move forward in life, we must not become complacent. I guess we can say complacency is the opposite of motivation, but it is also a killer of dreams and imagination.

We all have dreams and aspirations for our lives and motivation is the fuel the dreams need to become a reality. It is so easy to be lulled into complacency. I myself have fallen prey to that lull many times. One example is my former marriage. I stayed in the marriage for years, even though I knew it was unhealthy. I got comfortable with my living situation against the whispers of my soul. I gave up on myself in a sense. The thought of leaving and making my way on in life was daunting. I allowed fear and disbelief in myself to lull me into complacency. I settled for the security of a roof over my head and bills being paid in exchange for my tolerance of the situation. Really if you look at it closer, it was an unconscious benefit scheme. I get this, and you will get that. I will give you this and I get that. Almost like a barter system. Complacency is needed in those types of relationships. Although I loved him very much, I loved him from an insecure place. Had I not been complacent then, I would have found all of my natural born strengths much sooner. I would have progressed with my dreams. No regrets though, better late than never, right?

Now I am much more proactive in my life. I am much more responsible and self reliant. Self reliance requires NON complacency. Another area that I am growing away from complacency is money. When I divorced, I got some money, like in all divorces. Well unless you work and find your career path, the money eventually gets eaten up by simply living. It also gets eaten up if you are allowing the money to give you a false sense of security. When there is money in the bank and your bills are paid, it's very easy to get lazy and put off making more money. Until the money gets close to running out. That's when complacency is challenged big time. One very excellent weapon against complacency is a fire under your AS@#%* !!

So back to the quote “ success leads to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success. “ Complacency can become a comfortable dysfunction. It is a huge culprit in someone not moving forward. Finding out why we accept complacency can make us dig deep inside to see where the fuel for the complacency is being driven from. If we want to do anything to improve our lives, we must give up the negative friend of complacency and befriend action. You can't be moving forward and complacent at the same time.

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