Today I learned I have to compare myself to who I was yesterday. I got this idea from Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life. In a previous podcast I stated it’s good to be competive. The idea behind that podcast was correct but only to an extent. During that period in my life I felt very marganilized and poorly treated. I felt like I was showing loving to people and being given their ass to kiss. For the most part that was true. My response to that was that I was gonna get so successful that I would put everyone who crossed me to shame. For awhile that motivated me. For awhile it got me digging deeper within myself to power through the various challenges I faced to move forward. But the idea of becoming more successful than my peers never really motivated me on a longterm basis. I knew deep down from the very start that that was small minded thinking. I knew that true winners don’t look around to see what everybody else is doing they look inside to see what they should start doing. That’s one of the many valuable ideas I got out of 12 Rules for Life. Though the unfortunate thing was once I got exposed to this idea I didn’t put it into practice until nearly 7 months later. I was sitting in the library 2 weeks ago and asked myself “What are some ideas that could change my life?” And this was the first and immediate idea that came to mind. I’ve found from the short time I’ve been comparing myself to the person I was with yesterday that this is a fantastic way to live ones life. There is nobody that has more data on me than myself. There is nobody that has my exact level of weakness and my exact level of strengths. There is nobody that thinks the same exact thoughts as me. So why would I set myself up against somebody else? The best person to compete against is the person I was with yesterday. It just seems more practical. I know exactly how hard I pushed yesterday. I know exactly how much I let a couple things slide. It’s hard not to look outwards though and marvel at other people’s success. Especially when those people are close in age to you or even younger. And especially when those people rub there success in your face and you just have to sit there and try to be a person of good character. But I’ve found that the best growth strategy comes from internal analyzation. When you know how many goals you set and how many goals you achieved in the day you have a benchmark for tomorrow. You keep achieving that benchmark and increasing it consistently then it seems to me that your capacity increases. Comparing myself to other people will lead me down a road of not being everything I could be. I could still be successful by comparing myself to other people but my success would eventually be capped. I would hit a comfortable point and would be unwilling to push forward and risk failing because I would of already done more than most people. That’s not somebody Never Stops. Somebody who Never Stops pushes themself until their is no more time left. That’s who I want to be.