Wishing you a `Blooming` week......

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it.?It just blooms.

“Why should you compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.”

We all do it or?have done it at some?point?in our lives: We compare ourselves to others and?gauge where we are based on what we observe them to be doing.

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If this was simply an observation, that would be alright. But in comparing ourselves to others, we often end up judging ourselves. There’s no one worse to judge!

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Remember You Are Blessed

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The thing about comparison is that there is never a win. How often do we compare ourselves with someone less fortunate than us and consider ourselves blessed??More?often, we compare ourselves with someone who we perceive as being, having, or doing?more.

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And this just leaves us coming up short.

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But our minds?do?want to quantify. Our minds want to rank and file and organize information. Our mind wants to know where we fit into the scheme of things. So we need to give it something to do.

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Redirect Your Thoughts

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We are always becoming more. Who you are today is a result of the decisions you made yesterday. We are always in a state of creation. We decide and then we decide again, and the direction is always toward expansion. It is our human nature to expand.

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So, when you catch yourself comparing yourself to another, stop for a moment and re-direct the thought. Instead of submitting to the temptation to compare yourself to someone else, ask yourself a few questions instead.

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Move In a New Direction

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What new decisions have you made or what new actions have you taken that have resulted in you moving in a new direction in your life?

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What are your wins this?year, compared to last?year?at this time? How has your life improved? How have?you?improved? What have you done recently that you never thought you could do?

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What negative behaviour have you stopped engaging in, that you never thought you could quit? What positive behaviour have you been engaging in that up until now, you have resisted?

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How are you doing more of what you said you were going to do and shown up more consistently for your own success?

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In other words, how have you continued to become a new and improved version of yourself?

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Think about the faulty logic. Take, for example, an introvert who feels energized after periods of solitude. What does he or she get by comparing him or herself to a gregarious, outgoing personality who gets bored by an hour alone with him or herself?

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What kind of illogical conclusions can he or she come to by this comparison?

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We all came in different. We all came in with certain intentions that through life experience, we have continued to hone. In fact, the only masterful creation we have to work with is ourselves.

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Michelangelo said, “Every?block?of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing with?their?block of stone. The statue that they are liberating is one of their own intentions. But how well we are doing with our own block of stone is our business.

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And we must tend to it with honour, care, compassion, and praise.

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Because when we have allowed for more expression this?year?than we have in the last, and more importantly we recognise it, then we can stand taller as a result of the comparison instead of diminished by it.

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Learn to be truly happy for the successes of others, rather than envious. Be a part of their success, rather than an obstacle. Participating in something great, including the successes of others is a wonderful thing to have accomplished.

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“I’m not in competition with anybody but myself.?My goal is to beat my last performance.”

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Happy Reading

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`Building Your Future`

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/building-your-future-dr-colin-thompson/1142633797?ean=2940186678526 .

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?“The Capacity to Learn is a Total Gift, the Ability to Learn is a Great Skill, the Willingness to Learn is a Choice for Your Future”

-??????Colin Thompson

Sharing successful information from many sources for your success.

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