THE SECRET OF CONTENTMENT SECRET OF CONTENTMENT. Learning to Be Content If you are in a place in your life, and are unhappy with everything about it (job, relationship, yourself, house, habits, etc.), it can be a miserable thing. But here’s something interesting: it can also be a happy thing. I’ve been in situations where you might think things were bad, and sometimes I was very unhappy, and other times I was happy. The difference wasn’t in the external circumstances, but in my mindset — I learned to appreciate what I had, instead of focusing on the things I didn’t have or didn’t like. I was grateful for my health, for the people in my life, for having food and being alive. If you can learn to develop the right mindset, you can be happy now, without changing anything else. You don’t need to wait until you’ve ...