Million Dollar Micro Business

16The comparison trap

Once you start your growth journey, you'll find any number of shiny lights and distractions around you. You'll see someone doing one thing and think you need to go and do that, then you'll see someone doing something else and feel maybe you should be doing that too. You'll end up dashing in a dozen different directions at once and getting nowhere fast.

Have you ever felt dejected on seeing someone else experience the success you craved for yourself? Sure you have. If you say no, you're evidently superhuman. Social media offers so many good things, but one of its more damaging effects is how easy it has made it to compare our performance, our achievements, our life unfavourably with what we imagine others are enjoying, and to allow that to undermine our wellbeing. You see other people doing what you want to do, and you feel like you just don't measure up. This can lead to anxiety and overwhelm and block you from letting your own light shine. You see someone else's front-end view, but not the back-end view. You never know what goes on behind the scenes, what they're really feeling or what they've gone through to get to where they are. Social media is a curated and often distorted view of that person, never the full picture, and it can leave you feeling utterly inadequate.

I know it can be difficult, but I urge you to stay focused on who you are and your own strengths. Stay in your own lane. Don't try to be all things to all people; be you, in all of your ...