{"id":855,"date":"2019-08-07T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/templeofwhy.home.blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2024-01-31T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:30:07","slug":"achieving-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/achieving-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Achieving Contentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We work to succeed, we strive for perfection, we burn out when we can&#8217;t go on. What if we strive for contentment instead of success? Unee is telling us that while it is positive to have a good work ethic and we absolutely do need to take responsibility for ourselves, we can also take care of ourselves at the same time. Contentment means to be satisfied, to not be seduced by want versus need. Contentment means gliding on the waves of life, not swimming against them and creating more turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe contentment even leads to happiness.<\/p>\n<p>May love prevail.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_media-20\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-media-20\" style=\"width: 867px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-858\" src=\"https:\/\/templeofwhyhome.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/pexels-photo-2119918.jpeg\" alt=\"sailboat\" width=\"867\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pexels-photo-2119918.jpeg 867w, https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pexels-photo-2119918-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pexels-photo-2119918-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pexels-photo-2119918-768x1152.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-media-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Richard Bradburn on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/sailboat-2119918\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We work to succeed, we strive for perfection, we burn out when we can&#8217;t go on. What if we strive for contentment instead of success? Unee is telling us that while it is positive to have a good work ethic and we absolutely do need to take responsibility for ourselves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,96,128,141,145],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templeofwhy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}