What I hate about the law of attraction.
There is one thing I really hate about the law of attraction.
It makes people complacent. Many people who practice the law of attraction want riches and money to flow to them without lifting a finger. They sit, dream, and wait.
The most important point of the law of attraction is that it requires taking relevant action towards one’s desires.
I get it.
I, too, did not want to do a lot of work. I wanted money and things to flow to me without having to do anything.
I didn’t want to get out of my comfort zone.
I found that if I wanted to improve my life, I was going to have to kill complacency.
Complacency leads to mediocrity.
I know firsthand that complacency leads to mediocrity.
I have lived my life in spurts, sometimes taking a lot of action and sometimes being complacent. Every single time I have become complacent, my life has become stagnant.
This has led to broken relationships, failures in business, and the formation of bad habits that have been hard to break.
Here are some ways that complacency hurts us.
Complacency leads to bad health.
If you want to have a low quality of life as you get older, then do nothing about your health.
I know many people who never exercise and still eat a lot of bad foods even though they know it is not good for them. You can argue that they are enjoying their life, but when I see them spending money on doctor visits, pills, and having difficulty getting around, I know that they are not living life as they had imagined.
I am not pointing fingers at only them. I, too, have been complacent with my health.
I quit exercising regularly.
This led to me becoming very stiff over the years. I used to be quite flexible, and then I got to where I couldn’t touch my toes. It has also led to me feeling less energetic, which made it even harder to push myself to go and exercise.
I was complacent with my diet. I was careful some days but allowed myself to eat whatever I wanted on others. This led to a growing waistline and also affected my energy.
I realized that if I continued to be complacent about my health, it was only going to compound. I looked at the generation ahead of me, and I could easily see the difference between those who did very little for their health and those who put in effort.
Those who did not put in much effort are now facing mobility issues and increasing medical costs.
If you want to have a much better quality of life as you get older, do not become complacent with your health.
Complacency leads to bad relationships.
When we take relationships for granted and no longer put in the effort that we did at the start, they start to fizzle over time.
This can happen with friends, partners, family, and with people we see all the time.
I have lost many people in my life with whom I had developed a close relationship. Over time, these relationships ended as complacency set in.
Taking things for granted and assuming things will continue forever as is, is a recipe for disaster.
If you want to have good relationships with those around you as you get older, then do not become complacent in your relationships.
Complacency leads to poor performance in business.
I have worked in several companies. In each job, I was eager and started off well. I was recognized and praised. Over time, I got complacent. I still did good work, but I let myself become disenchanted.
I didn’t want to take on more responsibility. I wanted to be comfortable.
And it wasn’t just me. I looked at most of the people I worked with, and over time, it was easy to see that they were just like me and wanted things to remain as they were.
When big change came, it impacted the mindset of many of these people, and it made them hate going to work.
Complacency leads to stress when things change, and change always comes.
I also wanted to start my own business.
I got on the early bandwagon of selling products on Amazon. I started off decently, but things started to change. Amazon changed their rules and many more people started selling on Amazon.
I had become complacent and thought that my products would continue to do well. I was wrong and I fell behind the competition. I ended up having to get out of the business.
Be careful about becoming complacent in your business. Things will change and you can be left behind.
Bottom line – Never Accept Complacency
If you want to improve your life, kill complacency. Being too comfortable leads to laziness, and laziness over years leads to poor results and a loss of motivation and energy.
Here are some things I am doing to battle complacency.
Review and Plan. Take a look at your life and ask yourself, “where have I become complacent?” Next, make a plan to improve that area of your life.
Make goals. Always strive for something. If you hit one goal, make a new one.
Get out of the mindset that you have done enough. When you challenge yourself, you grow as a person and feel more satisfied with life.
Make habit-based goals. Set goals to perform an action a certain amount of times per day, week, month, etc.
If you want to be a writer, make a goal to write 10 to 20 articles a month. Do not allow yourself to miss your goal. Write every day. Publish 3 times a week no matter how crappy it is. Do not get comfortable with publishing once or twice a month. Make it a habit to write a certain amount of time each week.
Always try to improve. First, start and get consistent at doing something. As you go along, work on improvement. It is one thing to write. It is another thing to consistently write articles that resonate with people.
“Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.” — Epictetus
If you become a person who always strives to improve yourself, you will have a higher quality of life.
Summary
Embrace being uncomfortable. We all want to be comfortable. But, I found that when I challenged myself and accomplished things, I felt much better about who I was. I felt more alive and good about life.
If you are sitting around all the time and have become comfortable with what you are doing, ask yourself if you will feel alive and motivated 10 years down the road. Ask yourself if you will have the energy and drive to change when life changes around you and forces you out of your comfort zone.
I want things to continue as they are, but truthfully, I know that this will not continue forever. Life changes, and if I want to have a high quality of life in the future, I know that I must battle complacency.
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