Here's my 10 steps to contentment

Matt Padwick spent his 20s travelling the world, chasing fulfillment as an adrenaline junkie. He eventually found it through meditation at Dzogchen Beara retreat in West Cork

1 The first step towards contentment was recognising my confusion. I was an adventure travel guide — my dream job — but I was not happy.

It was only when I slowed down, and stopped chasing rainbows, that I realised that inner peace and contentment were the goal, and that the greatest adventure of all was not ‘outside’ in the world-of-things, but within me.