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Comparing Can Be Motivating As Well As Destructive
Comparing ourselves to others allows them to drive our behavior. Sometimes this comparison is motivating and sometimes it’s destructive.
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How To Focus On Yourself
- Think of anything you want to achieve. Learn and practice that.
- Learn to know yourself. Observe your thoughts 💭.
- Make your self care plan like having a coffee ☕ or tea 🍵, set a good and healthy diet, make excercise regimen or take a stroll in your surroundings to enjoy nat...
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Being You - Is The Only Game You Can Really Win
your focus and energy is placed on what you’re capable of now and how you can improve yourself.
Life becomes about being a better version of yourself. And when that happens, your effort and energy go toward upgrading your personal o...
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Comparisons between people are a recipe for unhappiness.
At worst, when we compare ourselves to others we end up focusing our energy on bringing them down instead of raising ourselves up.
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I believe in the power of self awareness. To achieve self awareness we need to focus on ourselves instead of others.
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Comparing ourselves to others
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You can be anything
... but you can’t be everything. When we compare ourselves to others, we’re often comparing their best features against our average ones.
It’s like being right-handed and trying to play an instrument with your left hand.
3. Stop comparing
No matter how you choose to define happiness —short-term or long-term — comparison will rob you of it. Whether we compare our finances, our body type, our vacations, our talents, our house size or our shoe size, there are no winners in the game of comparison. But here’s the good news: Nobody is f...
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