The Journey To Self Improvement

In current society, it is far too easy to compare yourself to others and wish you had what they have, look the way they do, or be capable of doing what they can do.

We are shown highlight reels everywhere we look. We are shown what our peers, athletes, public figures, and the media want us to see and we naturally form a conclusion that they have it all figured out. Take a moment and think about a time you wanted to be like someone else. Maybe it was the way they looked or their athletic ability that drew you into this feeling of envy. It could be someone you know or someone you follow on social media but you found yourself obsessing over something they had that you didn't. Did wishing to have what they have change you? Did you will yourself into a better life or did you stay as you, the same person but feeling slightly inferior? It may seem like we’re stating the obvious but you directly control your thoughts and emotions and when you allow them to run wild, that is a choice you made.

What you can never control is someone else and their journey and by comparing yourself to them, you are likely to let your emotions knock you down a peg. Finding peace with where you are in your journey and allowing your process to take shape, allows you to focus on yourself and what is important to you. It is in our nature to compare but how can we use it to better ourselves. What if we use our habit of comparing to build ourselves up and fuel our journeys of self-improvement? Comparing yourself with nobody else other than yourself opens up a pathway to improve in ways you may have never imagined.

Free yourself to make mistakes and learn from them. Every time you take action to improve or take a chance, you have an opportunity to learn and build yourself up to be better than you were before this experience. When you start something brand new, motivation is high and improvement is inevitable.

If you are reading this, you probably have seen this first hand when you joined your gym or you are thinking about embarking on your journey to better health. When you show up consistently and put in the work to improve, your strength skyrockets, you notice running a lap around the block becomes a minor task and you feel great! As you keep reinventing yourself, you have a choice to compare yourself to the long-gone version you once were and revel in the progress you have made or bury yourself in envy caused by comparing yourself with individuals who are experts at their craft.

Everyone is at a different spot in their journey and on slightly different paths. The art of showing up for yourself and becoming incrementally better, healthier, and stronger than you were last week, is a clear cut path to inner peace and self-improvement.

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