This is a subject I’ve come back to so many times.
One of the main components of contentment is enough.
In a recent Seth Godin blog, he repeated this much more clearly than me and you can read it here in a much more eloquent way.
Having enough is choosing to have enough and the choice is conscious.
Chatting to a friend of mine recently he told me how one of his best friends had just sold their business for a big 8 figure sum, not far off 100million.
He had gone skiing with his friend and their families and the friend wanted to buy champagne all the time for everybody whereas my friend who was with them and with young children didn’t want to drink champagne all the time.
He said the guy looked lost, had lost all his purpose and direction at too young an age.
If you have a business which is worth 100 million, it can certainly pay you enough money each year to not have to sell it.
If you want to then sell it but understand that selling it could well be like Jonny Wilkinson and how he describes winning the world cup in The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett.
When Wilkinson won the world cup it catapulted him into the most depressive phase of his life (and he has had many of those phases).
In amongst all the time that you’re investing to be the best in the world at that or the most beautiful at this or the richest, schedule up a little bit of time, quietly and on your own to try to set your enough.
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