Winning the daily comparison game (being better than the next person) is like getting Monopoly money. No matter how much of it you get, it is still useless in the real world. One day you are better than so and so, the next you are worse and it seesaws back and forth endlessly. Sometimes you can buy Park Place with all of your Monopoly money and sometimes you are bankrupt.
Much like with Monopoly, at the end of the day, the game gets folded up and put away. No matter how much comparison capital you have earned inside your own head, it has no real value. The only sure thing it delivers is suffering.
We all want to be successful, to be at the top of our game, to produce results consistent with our mission in life, and to have the relationships we desire. Accomplishing all of those things, requires a wide and deep understanding of yourself.
Looking outside of ourselves at how others are doing things can be useful, but only when it inspires us! You risk limiting returns if you spend too long looking outside of yourself. The value of being inspired is applying it to your endeavors and using it to help you home in on your most genuine expressions.
Think about the last time you were in a flow-state, truly satisfied, or at least peaceful and at ease. How much time did you spend evaluating how good or bad you were? Or, comparing yourself to others? ZERO.
There’s probably a clue there.
To inspiration
