How The Super Successful Can Lead Lives Free Of Boredom And Discontent

The life of a super successful individual appears uncommon only to the unsuccessful.

But a man is only as “successful” as the nature of his day-to-day existence.

The inevitable Truth about success is that once it is attained, it becomes relatively commonplace.

The inevitable Truth about wealth is that once it is attained, it becomes little more than one’s new norm.

All pleasures fade.

The man who once craved world adulation, now spends his life craving anonymity.

The man who once craved success, sometimes becomes a victim of it.

And no matter how successful a man becomes, he settles into a domestic existence of one sort or another.

And this domestic existence is as common as common gets.

When this man had nothing . . .

In the days that he had to look up in order to see the sky . . .

When the game had not been figured out . . .

When he was climbing the mountain . . .

The eight-dollar takeouts tasted great.

And today the fine dining tastes stale.

You see, the problem with “having arrived,” is that the road tends to end.

Things become routine.

Boredom sets in.

And where the day was once a day of possibility, it now becomes a day of looking for ways to fill the time.

The one who truly begins to see the writing on the wall is the one who asks, “I have enough money to last four lifetimes. I’ve attained all that I’ve wanted to attain. What am I going to do with all the years I have left?”

Most chafe under the weight of such discontent.

But few directly ask themselves such a question.

For it is frightening to ask it.

Society and its gurus and minions will recommend that one find a hobby, play golf, join a club, take vacations, get a dog, socialize, pursue philanthropy, and so on.

But the human heart is not satisfied by such things.

Particularly in the successful man, the heart is hungry.

It seeks a mountain to climb.

It craves an endeavor.

What is that endeavor?

Well, the Truth is that I know what that endeavor is.

But if I simply tell it to you, it will not have the effect that you might imagine.

Do not seek instruction.

Do not seek prescription.

Seek understanding.

Let us focus on understanding.

The Truth is explored through questions rather than answers.

The answer that the Mind produces, depends upon the question that is asked.

If one asks the question, “What shall I do with the rest of my life,” the mind will respond with “activities.”

But imagine if one pursued “activities,” for the remainder of his life (which is what almost all humans do). Would he die with contentment?

Would he die having lived a complete and fulfilling life?

Stated sincerely, would he have lived a live so satisfying, that he would be ready to die at any moment?

You see, no man truly fears death.

He fears living unfulfilled.

Therefore, I will propose a different question.

A question that will prevent the Mind from spewing a quick and shallow answer.

A question that is beyond the understanding and the jurisdiction of the method, tip, trick, hack, and technique-addicted “society.”

A question that will direct one to the heart of things.

The question is this: “How is it that I can arrive at such contentment, that I never feel empty again?”

The question is not about how to quell boredom. But to prevent the seed of boredom from ever sprouting again.

How does one begin to answer this question?

The Truth is that this question requires a Journey.

But I will set you on your way by telling you that you must begin by exploring the source of this discontentment.

I will leave you with this. As it is the ideal place to begin.

The Mind is a pleasure-seeking machine. And no amount of wealth, success, fame, or activities can be pleasurable enough to satisfy a pleasure-seeking machine.

The one who is Wise . . .

The one who truly seeks Contentment . . .

Is the one who will understand that on the other side of this Mind lies all that he has ever sought.

What do I mean by “the other side of this mind?”

What this means is that as of this moment, the Mind has this man in his grips.

But if this man can learn to see the chains that bind him to this Mind, he can cut them quite easily.

In cutting the chains to the Mind, one becomes free of all the habits of the mind, that this man thought were his own frailties.

But, as a glorious reward of his sincerity, becoming free of the habits and the turmoils of the Mind forces the mind to become a servant to the man himself. And placing at his disposable, all of the marvelous powers that few men ever gain access to.

This is the path away from the hamster-wheel of prescriptions, self-help, psychotherapies, ingestibles, spirituality, and new age jargon . . .

And toward the Truth that befits the glorious creature that is the Human.

Namaste.

 

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