Note to God

Lord, help me to fight escapism as a means to shirk my responsibilities at work.

The solution to your quest for more: defining and embracing the beauty of your enough.   Lagom is a Swedish term that translates to “just the right amount.” Lagom is what we are searching for—the knowledge of enough, of balance, of equilibrium. The challenge is that lagom isn’t static; it tends to be an ever-increasing target. As you get closer to achieving it, your confidence swells and resets to a higher level. This subconscious reset—from “I’ll be happy when I have [$X]” to “I’ll be happy when I have triple [$X]”—creates the upward spiral of expectations that you need to avoid.  You will never have true Financial Wealth if you allow your expectations—your definition of enough—to grow faster than your assets. There is no perfect antidote. Hedonic adaptation means our chase for more is genetically hardwired, but forcing the definition of enough out of the subconscious mind and into the conscious mind is a start. “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us,” s...

Seeing is an important aspect of spiritual life. The way we see money, things, woman, man.  If you can't see goodness, you cannot say you love someone.  To see people beyond our passions. To see goodness in them and to love them.  Only with love can we see things clearly. Not just with human love, but the love of God for him or her.  To delight in the image of God in others.

Self control needs to be maturity in order to overcome tendencies. Tendencies isn't a sin, it's neutral, but we need self-control.