Your Measure Of Success In Found Within You, Nowhere Else
We build a better life when we stop comparing ourselves to others.
Social media is an incredible tool. It connects us and brings us together. But it also encourages us to make false and dangerous comparisons. Social media has a desirability bias. Everyone shows the story they want us to see. But what we do not see are the struggles and hard work concealed behind success. We also do not see the lies and hypocrisies.
A better life, and a better you, is built when you measure success by your own standard.
Part of the illusion of our environment today is the fantasy that success comes fast and easy. We are bombarded by messages that trick us into believing it. Having been built up to believe it, it is no wonder that we fall harder when we look around at our own humble realities.
We are taught to chase a future we will never achieve.
We are taught that what we want to have is desirable but distant and that what we have now is undesirable but too close.
This causes a few problems for us. It teaches us to value false comparisons. Comparing ourselves to others easily leads to trouble. It leads us to value things that are transient, constantly…
