There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
Amen! We always need a reminder about whom we compete with in this blessed world. As one of the worse things you can do to yourself is negatively compare yourself to others. Now there is nothing wrong and everything right about learning from others who have “been there done that”. Compare to improve, never to tear yourself down. You know the difference. Under no circumstance jealously compare yourself in a negative light to another human. Simply focus on becoming a better version of yourself than you were yesterday.
Always find ways to improve! It’s the only way. Fill your mind with positive success thoughts. Learn from others who authentically share their journey, so you do not even have to make the mistake in the first place. Never go backwards. Never remain the same. Laser focus on your better self. With the 4th degree of 10x ACTion in play keep improving and moving forward.
Ironically so, in the long run, it takes more energy to do nothing or remain average as eventually regret will creep in and zap all your life-lived energy. The same amount of energy that it takes to do NOTHING is the same amount of energy it takes to do MORE = massive ACTions. Time never stands still. The next hour will pass by whether you are doing nothing or doing something to become better. So you might as well be with self-discipline and do something that is BETTER for you! Why?? Why do something that is best for you? Well, why the hell not?? Again, time is going to pass by with or without you doing something positive for your life. Or as Jordan Peterson reminds us, “Why suffer more stupidly than you have to!?”
Rather 5.4.3.2.1 GOOOO take care of a better YOU! Much better than NOOOO!? GOOOO do something that is BEST for you! Saying no to what you KNOW is good for you, leads to regret and by now.
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
So with NO REGRET… GOOOO!
Bottom line, if you are being withOUT self-love and self-discipline, spending your time aimlessly doing the 1st 3 degrees of mediocre action, or reeling through social media and wishing you had what another human might have, you are not only selling yourself short—you will go backwards. You will crash your success car before you even start your engine. You will experience regret.
Not my opinion either, but a law of the universe. If you stop progressing, you will start regressing. Exactly why the windshield in a car is so big and the rearview mirror is so tiny. How many times do we drive backwards? 🙃 Every once in a while, but not much. And “try” driving forward by ONLY looking at your rearview mirror and see how far such limited vision gets you or how long you last. 💥
Same with life. From the very human birth of our souls into this physical manifestation we call life, we are GROWING. Crying and screaming for more. To move foward. Indeed, we are creatures of growth. Vibrating expansion. We desire more and are meant to keep leveling up. Worth repeating… if you are not positively moving forward you will negatively drift backward. Apart from learning from our mistakes ONE TIME, there is nothing much more for us in our rearview mirrors. The blessings are in the NOW and AHEAD! Forward time is fleeting. Make the “BE BETTER” best of it. So for today’s bless up post, I want to honor KOBE and challenge you again… to GOOOO & BE BETTER 👇
Better every single day. Better than yesterday. A little bit better than you were before. Just Be Better.
