"Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough."

I want to feature an incredible quote from Sahil Bloom’s book “The 5 Types Of Wealth”. If you’re curious, and without going into detail, the 5 types are time, social, mental, physical, and financial. If you want to learn more about that I recommend you get his book. 

When you read it, you’ll find that all forms of wealth have one commonality. They all encounter the same problem, a core theme of the book, which is knowing what ‘having enough of it’ is.

What’s enough time to yourself? What’s enough money? What’s enough quality relationships?

Without defining it for yourself, you’ll get caught up in the insatiable pursuit for more. ‘More’ is the scoreboard we’ve been taught to pay attention to, even though it doesn’t serve us. Which is precisely why Sahil shared the quote:

“Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough.”

When we’re not appreciative of what we have and always desiring what’s next, it strips the present moment of its richness. It creates an emptiness that’s impossible to fill because it’s always falling short of an unachievable expectation.

But don’t mistake this as permission to be complacent or settle for less than you desire. When you clearly define what ‘wealthy’ looks like in different areas of your life, it gives you something to measure against. You create a reference point that you can evaluate your lifestyle and progress against to see if you’re satisfying it. It makes success in life a winnable game because you’ve established the rules of it.

Defining ‘enough’ is tricky. On one hand it communicates sufficiency and satisfaction, and on the other it’s a threshold for what’s tolerable but not fully desirable. 

That’s where defining what ‘enough’ is becomes critical. In doing so you decide what’s required to be wealthy. This is a dynamic process. Over time as you get feedback on what actually feels right for you, and what meets your needs and makes you feel ‘full’, that’s how you arrive at your own amounts. And when you have that memorialized as something to measure against, you can overcome feelings of insufficiency because you have your success metrics in place.

I understand that this is a more philosophical point, and I usually speak more tactically. But nonetheless I think it’s a helpful perspective as you determine what a meaningful life looks like for you.