7-Day Contentment Challenge: Begin the New Year With Enough by Makeda Mutema-Newton

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Why the urge keeps coming back

This isn’t about discipline

Hey -


Impulse spending returns

because discontent returns.


I didn’t grow up this way.


I grew up in Trinidad where life was simple. Christmas wasn’t about piles of gifts. It was about music, family, food, and time together. We didn’t chase things.


But when I moved to the U.S., that changed. Expectations grew. So did spending. And slowly, I lost the simplicity I once knew.


The pause interrupts the moment.


But contentment reshapes the pattern.


That’s what the 31-day Contentment Reset does.


Each day gives you:

• A short teaching

• A guided reflection

• A faith-centered anchor

• A practical shift


Contentment is not complacency.

It’s learning to say, “Right now, I have enough.”


Join the Reset for $10 before Monday at 11:59 PM EST.


Start your reset here:


Join the 31-day Contentment Reset here



Chat soon,

Makeda

@Contentment.Made.Simple

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