I stopped COMPARING myself to others once I understood this…

If you have ever had the thought

“I feel like I am falling behind”

Or “Others are ahead of me”

Try this thought experiment –

Question #1: Ask a 100 people you know what their starting point was in life. How many different answers would you get?

Answer: A 100 different answers.

Some were focused from the get go.

Others found their drive later on in life.

Some had resources. Others struggled.

Question #2: Ask those same 100 people what their end point is. How many different answers would you get?

Answer: A 100 different answers.

Some want to retire by 40.

Some want to keep going till they hit a certain milestone in their career.

Some never want to stop working.

Question #3: Go back to those same 100 people and ask how they measure success. How many answers would you get now?

Answer: Again, a 100 different answers.

Some might measure success by the fame and acclaim they garner.

Some by the amount of wealth they accumulate.

Some by the number of lives they positively touch.

Some by how happy and successful their kids are.

In any game, to decide winners and losers, you need 3 things:

One, a common starting point

Two, a common end point

Three, a common set of rules that everyone agrees on by which to compare performance

In life, rarely would you ever find a situation where all 3 conditions are met.

When everyone around you has a different starting point, a different end point, and most likely is measuring success differently than you…

…how can you say who is “behind” and who is “ahead”?

As Naval Ravikant would say, “Life is a single-player game.”

You get to choose how you play that game

You get to choose how long you will play

And only you get to choose how you will measure your success

Please reply to this e-mail and tell me – How do you measure success?

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