Your life and your standards

Be in competition with yourself not somebody else. Yes were are a human ‘race’ but life isn’t a race it’s a journey. When Steve Jobs said ‘’Right now the new is you, but sometime not too long you will become the old and cleared away. Sorry to be dramatic but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped on living with someone thoughts of how life should be.’’ I strongly believe when you competing with someone you are comparing yourself to them. Which means you are living on someone else’s standards of how life should be?

Do you think Steve Jobs would have ever achieved who he became if he compared himself to Sir Albert Einstein? Rather what do you think Sir Albert Einstein would have achieved if he compared himself to Sir Francis Bacon. See where I’m taking this? All these men have made history some are greater than others but I sure doubt they would been comparing themselves to anyone. It was more likely they paged through history books and saw all the great men in it, and they made it their goal to have theirs in it with a whole different path to everyone who did it before them.

What is the whole point to this? Well my point has already been made. You cannot walk or jog or sprint your own journey in life if you still live by someone else’s standard. You have it within you to set the highest of all standards and achieve things beyond your own imagination just like these three men I mentioned above, the key is competing with yourself, do better than you did the day before.  

Yet it may sound so easy to achieve, but how possible is it? The core question you’d ask your self is ‘what do you want?’

What do you want?

I don’t think you would go places or achieve goals if you don’t know what you want out of life. Having a clearly defined goal is more like having a car that is ready to move. Without any clearly defined goals you would not move, because even if whatever you do at that time succeeds you will still not progress.  Why am I saying that? There is a saying that goes ‘’If you aim at nothing you will always hit your target’’ This saying just supports the statement I just mentioned above, when you aim at nothing whether you hit or not you still would have reached your target because you didn’t aim at all. The importance of goals comes into play in that instance, when you are looking for progress you need to have clearly defined goals in order to have a reference point of your progress at all times.

Know what you want, make goals and keep on improving your progress by doing better than you did yesterday, once you have achieved that you would’ve successfully competed with yourself and bettered yourself in so many ways.