What if Contentment Was Your Measure of Success?
Contentment is a terribly undervalued outcome in business. We’re taught to focus on accomplishment-based outcomes like productivity and satisfaction, which are important of course. Yet ultimately, being content is what we all want the most.
In love-centered Amare companies, contentment matters a lot. It is part of a corporate mindset that values “being” as much as “doing.” That means skilling up in mindfulness, presence, and authenticity. You get to be you.
- Are you generally content in life?
- Will you make contentment a priority in your work?
- Are you willing to set contentment as a core value?
Five Amare Ways to Find More Contentment
1. Inventory contentment. Take five minutes now and list ten things that bring you contentment. Think, for example, of nature, togetherness, quiet time, music, and art. Do you give yourself enough of these things?
2. Look out the window. Right now, take sixty seconds – literally – and simply notice with no judgment, all the sights and sounds. Just breathe and be aware. You just gifted yourself a moment of contentment.
3. Lead with contentment. As a leader, demonstrate it’s desirable and acceptable to just “be” at times, without doing. Do this by sitting quietly and smiling, going for a meditative stroll, and starting meetings with a moment of silence.
4. Start a contentment conversation. Share this newsletter to introduce the idea. Then in a discussion, let others know what brings you contentment in and outside of work. Sharing deeper parts of you goes beyond your role to your soul.
5. Revisit corporate aims. Assess how many of your business objectives are about accomplishments. Consider adding contentment – which can be subjectively measured and tracked – to what you value and reward.
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Are you a leader who’s putting love to work, even in small ways? Contact me now about appearing on my new Amare Leadership Podcast starting soon. Your story is worth sharing! ―Ram Dass, in Polishing the Mirror Five Ways to Flourish in Business and Life How to “Have it All” the Amare Way! Six Ways to Increase Your Self-Awareness in Leadership and Business Thanks everyone for tuning in to Amare Wave Wednesday! Do YOUR one amare thing today to improve your business and grow the wave! If you like this, share it! _______ With Amare, _________Today’s Amare Wave Wednesday Quote
“Contentment is just being complete in the moment.”
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