ITL140: How to be Content and Ambitious at the Same Time
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2014
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I address the question of how to balance contentment and the things you want in life.
There are several things I want to do and want to have.
Before anything “goes up on our refrigerator,” so to speak, I see if it fits my criteria…
- Does this line up with my mission in life?
- Would it make my mission more vibrant and successful?
- Can this thing be a tool to help people?
We are very joyful whether we get to do something or not. There is an understanding that we don’t need certain things to feel fulfilled.
I am very aware of blessings beyond need.
- We have a house, but I have proven in my life that I only need a pier to sleep under.
- We have blessings beyond what we need cultivate a grateful spirit.
- Gratefulness will make you into a content person.
- In my quiet time, I will examine the things beyond what I need and determine if I should pursue them.
Gratefulness is right in the middle of this question. You’ve got to have a grateful spirit and understand that if your needs are met, everything else is gravy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi and welcome once again to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm your host, David Lloyd. |
| 0:18.8 | Andy, how are you doing today? |
| 0:20.6 | Good, David. Good. How are you? I am fantastic. I'm your host, David Lloyd. Andy, how are you doing today? Good, David. Good. How are you? |
| 0:22.4 | I am fantastic. I'm excited to be here. We have started to get on a good little role here with people |
| 0:28.9 | calling in, leaving voicemails, questions for you, emailing you questions. I know that you've been |
| 0:35.9 | traveling a little bit lately. I wanted to bring up one thing real quick that I saw recently that you've been traveling a little bit lately. |
| 0:37.9 | I wanted to bring up one thing real quick that I saw recently that you did. |
| 0:42.6 | You were driving somewhere like East Tennessee, North Carolina, something like that, |
| 0:48.6 | and you stopped at a bookstore. |
| 0:50.2 | Is that right? |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | Stopped at several. |
| 0:53.5 | Stopped at several of them. And why did you do that? Yeah, yeah. Stopped at several. Stopped at several of them. |
| 0:54.7 | And why'd you do that? |
| 0:56.2 | Well, you know, book signings are weird to me. |
| 1:01.3 | They somehow don't work that great or whatever. |
| 1:08.5 | And so, you know, bookstores they they want you to come in and sit there |
| 1:13.5 | and oh it's just it's hard scheduling wise because you know writing books is not the only thing |
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