Comparing yourself to you VS others

This morning my mom woke me up at 6:30 am to try a boxing class at this new place downtown called Rowdy Box. The class was similar to Orange Theory in the sense that we did intervals of different exercises, not just boxing. For example today we did 3 minutes of pushups and then we went back to boxing for an amount of time. Very high-energy class, I really liked it and will work out there again. During the workout, the instructor kept saying “Remember you are the best you can be today” and said you can and you are the best —- you can be. This can be perceived in many different ways but what I took from it was this is how much we compare ourselves to others. Even people we are close to, comparisons are made. While all this comparison is going on there is still so much you don’t know about others and about yourself. So instead of comparing yourself to others whose lives you have no concept of how they’re really doing, compare yourself to yourself. How can you push yourself outside of your comfort zone today? How can you make yourself focus today? How can you push yourself a little bit harder in your workout? Growth takes time and you take incremental steps. Becoming the person you want to be, inhabits change, and you have to change your daily actives and the way you think to become someone else.

For me personally, instead of looking at other influencers my age killing it and grow their following by the thousands, I try to see how I can improve a blog post or push through my insecurities and post a picture on Instagram. When we think about people who are successful we only see the end result, not the pain, hard work, and effort they put into it. While in my morning workout I thought about what the instructor was saying, how there is not only room to grow but that we are all in our own game, and no-one is the same so to be better than your past self is the real comparison you should be focusing on.

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