Every good thing happens on the other side of "enough".

When you've had enough of the struggle, enough of the drama, and enough wasting time, that's when things change.

The problem is, you can't see "enough" until you've had enough experiences to develop eyes for it.

We usually don't flip the light switch on and say "I'm changing today."

The person buried in debt usually can't be told to stop, because the line of enough only becomes clear after they've walked past it a few times and felt the pain of passing it.

So finding enough requires the self-awareness of paying attention to the lines you've crossed without justifying or denying that the line was there.

But that often requires an awareness of where we are in relation to that line.

So there's another side to this "enough" line that we don't like to talk about.

This one is, "Am I enough?"

It's the same imaginary line, just from a different direction.

We often don't think we have enough because we don't think we are enough.

For most of us, we've let someone else hand us a target, and then we spend our lives trying to be good enough to hit it…good enough as a person, as a spouse, at our job, as a parent, or at building whatever it is we're building.

But you get to decide where that line of "enough" is, too.

King David (before he was king) wrote, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."

In Hebrew, that line embodies the essence of true peace. The Hebrew word for peace is shalom, and it essentially means wholeness, completeness…enough.

David wasn't saying he had everything. He was a long way from having what he would one day have as king. What he was saying was that what he had was enough because of who was with him.

He understood where he was in relation to the imaginary line of "enough".

What if what you have is enough? What if you are enough? What if you gave yourself permission to close the laptop, go for the walk, and eat dinner with your kids without feeling guilty and striving for just a little more?

Our relationship with enough is where productivity creeps into obsession. It's where building something becomes trying to become someone.

And this is the line we have to become aware that we're crossing.

Every good thing happens on the other side of "enough".