The consequences of lack of contentment in the society include the following: Corruption of all kinds such as bribery advance fee fraud (419) etc. Greed, cheating, and robbery. Stealing from fellow citizens and public funds.

Here are six tips you can apply today to find more contentment in your life:

1. Practice gratitude.
2. Take control of your attitude.
3. Break the buying habit.
4. Stop comparing yourself to others.
5. Help others.
6. Be content with what you have, never with what you are.

How to deal with lack of contentment

1. Become grateful.
2. Stop comparing yourself to others.
3. Help others.
4. Be content with what you have, never with what you are (Never stop learning, growing, and discovering).

Attributes of Contentment

• Hatred for greed: Greed is the desire for more than what a person needs or can afford to have.
• Satisfaction: Satisfaction is being contended and act of deriving joy in what a person has.
• Humility: A contended person is usually humble, does not brag with whatever he/she has.

Contentment is the state of being happy and satisfied. Contentment isn’t an excited kind of happy, it’s more like a peaceful ease of mind. It’s being satisfied with what you have, whatever that is. You might feel a sense of contentment knowing you have a cup of hot chocolate and a good movie to look forward to tonight.

1 Timothy 6:6-12 But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

The following are illustrative examples of contentment.

• Simple Things. Focusing on the simple things in life such as time with your family or enjoying nature.
• Wonder. Seeing the world with a sense of wonder.
• Escapism.
• Passivity.
• Denial.
• Complacency.
• Mediocrity.
• Bread & Circuses.

Contentment is generally defined as a longer lasting, but a deeper feeling of satisfaction and gratitude. Happiness is arguably viewed as having a temporary feeling attached to it. Whereas contentment is viewed by many to have a long-lasting effect on those that experience it.

I’ve heard that contentment is the supreme virtue. It means living to the fullest the good of every passing moment. Without contentment, we can never find peace. Active contentment takes our inner peace out into the battlefield of life.

Contentment is especially helpful in situations in which there is no way to improve things. It is also helpful when one is focused on positive things that can come from the difficult times.

Contentment is an emotional state of satisfaction that can be seen as a mental state, maybe drawn from being at ease in one’s situation, body and mind. Colloquially speaking, contentment could be a state of having accepted one’s situation and is a milder and more tentative form of happiness.

to be satisfied or pleased

The complacent and content difference The difference between contentment and complacency is a subtle one. Being content means being happy. Being complacent means refusing to work to improve.

Discontentment has many causes: Meeting wants instead of needs, the temporary nature of this life, dissatisfaction, fear, disappointment with oneself, and loneliness can all increase one’s discontentment. Wants do not satisfy hunger. Examples: Eating a candy bar doesn’t satisfy the body’s need for protein or vitamins.

You feel like your daily life is meaningless and task-driven. You often feel helpless, hopeless, or pessimistic. You protect your heart with steel walls. You often feel you don’t really matter and your love doesn’t make a difference.

Positive discontent is the combination of gratitude and discontent. It doesn’t discount or diminish what we’ve been able to accomplish but neither does it allow us to rest on our laurels. Positive discontent allows us to enjoy what we’ve achieved without the attendant danger of becoming complacent.

“Divine discontent comes when we compare what we are to what we have the power to become. Each of us, if we are honest, feels a gap between where and who we are, and where and who we want to become. We yearn for greater personal capacity.” These feelings are God-given and create an urgency to act.

divine discontent. norm where never satisfied with status quo, search for problems. bounded rationality. view that ppl are bounded in their decision making capabilities; access to limited info;tendency towards safising rather than maxiizing; Herbert Simon.

Discontent in a Sentence ?

1. Because of the increase in police related shootings, unhappiness and discontent spread through the city.
2. Discontent filled the heart of the underpaid worker slaving away at her dead-end job.
3. Taxpayers felt discontent after finding out the mayor had been stealing funds from them.