{"id":13954,"date":"2014-02-16T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=13954"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:22:41","slug":"on-mindsets-achievement-vs-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/on-mindsets-achievement-vs-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"On Mindsets: Achievement vs. Contentment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13956\" alt=\"couplesmile\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/couplesmile.png\" width=\"349\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/couplesmile.png 349w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/couplesmile-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/couplesmile-150x115.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/>I&#8217;m mulling over some things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if those of us with a large degree of ambition, or drive, or even longing have a distinct disadvantage&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are the skills and traits helpful for achievement also a tripwire discharging unabated discontentment?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Achievement, of course, is not negative. Nor is the desire to achieve, in itself&#8230;but I wonder about the byproducts. I wonder about the trappings or downsides.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is the &#8220;content person&#8221; someone who tends to be less ambitious and is therefore more satisfied at a core level?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Or, could the experience of a more lasting satisfaction also be reached through a pruning process of maturation and holding the two in a difficult, but possible, creative tension?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do you see it? I&#8217;m throwing it out their and hoping for extra insight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about perspective and mindset. The next post will followup with a look into a <strong>framework<\/strong> for mitigating or ameliorating the issue. I created a visual to serve as a guide for the <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1g2iA-3D8\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">next post<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>. You won&#8217;t want to miss it.<\/p>\n<p>It, like me, is a work-in-process, not a final solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>What about you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Want to weigh in?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Given that discontentment isn&#8217;t necessarily negative: Are you more content or discontent, in general?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Do you sense that it&#8217;s connected with your ability or desire to achieve? (Why or why not?)<\/p>\n<p>Visit soon. It&#8217;ll be a treat!<\/p>\n<p>(Get the next post sent straight to your inbox by email delivery through feedburner. Place your name in the field in the right sidebar.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for visiting, today! See you soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Lisa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the skills and traits helpful for achievement also a tripwire discharging unabated discontentment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5335,5626],"tags":[5322,5324,4378,853,855,5856,961,4377,1102,1184,4796,1689,4716,1763,2071,2536,5651,4770,4079,2968,4241,4860,3698,3711,3735],"class_list":["post-13954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-spark-my-muse","tag-ability","tag-achievement","tag-be","tag-creating","tag-creative","tag-delivery","tag-desire","tag-do","tag-email","tag-experience","tag-follow","tag-hoping","tag-if","tag-in","tag-longing","tag-perspective","tag-post","tag-process","tag-right","tag-satisfaction","tag-thinking","tag-visual","tag-why","tag-will","tag-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13954"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14084,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13954\/revisions\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}