Being content is definitely a part of my definition of success! Not only that, it has amazing magnetizing mojo. 
I looked it up in the dictionary, which coincided well with my own reflections.
Content=satisfied with what one is or has; not wanting more or anything else.
Yes! Contentment is a satisfaction. It’s a place of peace that arises in the knowing that nothing is missing and nothing is wrong. There is no desire to get someplace else, to do something else or to be someone else.
What results is deep satisfaction and the fulfillment in the now. All is well.
What if you are not content with where you are or who you are?
Some confuse the notion of contentment with a passive resignation to what is not working.
They are not the same.
You may not like what is for yourself or others. That is OK. Desire is sometimes born through dissatisfaction and frustration.
But if you are not willing to see the gift(s) in what is, you are merely running away from something, rather than genuinely being ready to attract what is next.
There is a paradox here worthy of understanding. When you want something other than what you have, you will simply continue to want.
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It is not until you can be content with where you are that you can change and attract what you want. More importantly, it is not until you can be satisfied with WHO you are, that you can attract what you want.
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Why?
Because you cannot manifest from a place of lack, what is missing or resistance.
So what is this magnetizing mojo?
Contentment contains potent magnetizing mojo!
Remember, you attract your experiences to you.
Since you are already doing this, why not be on purpose about it and attract what you actually want? You have this power!
You are essentially a living magnet, and contentment is a very attractive “vibration”. It draws to you MORE experiences that reinforce MORE contentment!
NOTE: Contentment puts you in the *Feel Good* zone. Learn more about this zone, and how it’s essential to your manifesting success….sign up below.
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This is a nice, cogent discussion of contentment, discontent, and purposeful activity to eliminate discontent. Well done! I just happen to disagree with several assumptions.
“Desire is sometimes born through dissatisfaction and frustration.”
Dissatisfaction and frustration – suffering, in one convenient word – are *always* born through Desire! To Desire is to suffer, for Desire is never fulfilled. You say the same thing: “When you want something other than what you have, you will simply continue to want.”
One Desires to *have* something, to own it, to make it yours forever. That cannot be; nothing that can be taken from you is yours. Everything can and will be taken from you.
“Everything always changes so nothing can be yours.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
So Desire is constantly unfulfilled and causes constant suffering. I go into more detail on Desire in “Life’s Purpose” including what attitude one should have towards one’s life’s purpose:
http://barkingunicorn.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/lifes-purpose/
“Magnetizing mojo” is a catchy, feel-good phrase that makes sense on an intuitive level. I may have to come up with one of my own, just to sell things effectively. People don’t buy things unless things make intuitive sense to them, even if the explanation makes no sense at all when you look at it objectively.
Things do not attract like magnets, they just happen and cause other things to happen. This is what’s called “karma”. Karma, contrary to the incomplete definition widely disseminated, is not an expression of Law but of Chaos.
The incomplete “law” of karma says that if you do good, good will happen to you. That’s true but it’s only half the story of karma, and so it leads to eternally unanswered questions like, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”
The full, true Chaos of karma is that *whatever* you do, *both* good and bad will come of it. From a single act arise multiple effects of both Yin and Yang natures. You cannot mint a coin with only head or tail on it.
I go into more detail on karma and what’s wrong with believing the half-karma formula in “Law and Chaos – Yang and Yin”:
http://barkingunicorn.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/law-and-chaos-yang-and-yin/
“Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly,” says Max Gunther in “The Zurich Axioms”. He means that believing one can predict the outcome of any action or event according to some “law” invariably leads to disappointment, surprise, frustration – suffering.
The “Law” of Attraction is dangerous because believing it leads to suffering.