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3 Ways To Avoid The Grass Is Always Greener Mental Trap
The grass is beautiful when it’s green, but it needs water and sun. It gets eaten by bugs. It dies. Then it doesn’t look very nice.
It’s who we are. We often chase greener pasture to find out what we saw was a mirage.
The grass-is-always-greener syndrome is deep-rooted in our DNA.
As humans, we’re never content. The moment we get what we want, our minds begin to drift.
We imagine we can have it better.
But what’s better? Is it a reality? A dream? A fantasy?
Once we get too close to the grass, to that new thing we’re pursuing, we find out it’s not so green after all.
We see it happen in marriages all the time.
A spouse cheats chasing greener pastures. It all comes tumbling down when reality sets in. The pasture wasn’t so great after all.
A young woman who worked for me came back looking for the job she had, saying, “nothing compares to here.”
She was excited about greener pastures because of what a bad team member who had many problems of their own told her. She didn’t realize how great she had it.
