We compare ourselves to others all the time, don’t we? We compare our income, our homes, our “toys.” We compare the success of our business, the size of our email list, the profit of our latest launch. And while a little healthy competition can be a good thing, most of the time comparisons become a tool to bash ourselves over the heads with how much we DON’T measure up. Here are three big problems with making comparisons to others:
Making comparisons between apples to oranges
First of all, you’re comparing apples to oranges.
Someone’s movie trailer to your own cutting room floor.
Their end product to your work in progress.
It’s no wonder that, 9 times out of 10, you you come out on the short end of the stick, feeling not good enough. Doubting yourself. “Confirming” every negative belief you have about yourself.
It’s a losing proposition from the beginning.
Looking in from the outside
Second of all, you have no idea the sacrifices it REALLY took to get where they are. It hardships and failures they REALLY had to overcome.
No matter how “open” the other person is about it, you only know what they tell you. You can only guess by what you see.
And your situation is different from theirs. Always.
Your journey is unique. Because YOU are unique.
Judging your “relative” worth
And finally, when you make comparisons to others, you’re looking to other people to validate your worth – some external, arbitrary metric by which you will deem yourself good enough or not.
Your worth doesn’t come from other people. It doesn’t come from outward metrics or “relative” measures.
Your worth it immutable. Unchangeable. God-given and intrinsic.
Nothing can change it.
So what’s the solution to the constant comparison game?
Run your own race.
Focus on your own progress, your own growth, your own journey.
Own your worth and stand confidently in who you were created to be.
And if you’re ready to own your worth, radiate confidence, and be YOURSELF in your life and business, so you can build a business you’re excited to wake up to every day, then schedule a complementary Confidence Breakthrough Discovery Session to chat with me about how I can support you in your journey.
