A new, exciting week lies ahead of you! This week, I suggest to have a ponder about the following “thought of the week”. I shared it with some of you in the beginning of the year, and thought it would be a valuable one to repeat. Especially around this time of the year! Here it is….

Instead of comparing yourself with others, simply be grateful for who YOU are!

Think about it for a moment. Why do we keep comparing ourselves with others, all the time, everywhere, with everything we do? It might make us feel good sometimes (when you come out “better” in your view…) but it doesn’t make any difference whatsoever to our life. It only creates more “chaos” and “scattering” in our head! Each of our life situations is unique so when comparing with others we compare apples with pears… always. Actually, in most cases we don’t even know whether it is a pear at all! We just think we know the other persons situation and create our own story around it.

When comparing, there seem to be only 2 possible outcomes:

1. In your view you come out “better” than the other which might make you feel happy. You fool yourself that you are fine and at least better off than the other person. Which creates a false sense of safety and might keep you from taking enough action. It also creates negative vibrations towards the other person.

2. In your view you come out “worst” which makes you feel unhappy. You feel like you are failing and not good enough…. Creating additional feelings of jealousy, anger or frustration. So also in this case, you create negative vibrations towards the other person AND yourself.

The key is though that whatever the outcome: it doesn’t change anything to the situation or achievement itself. You did what you did, it is just so and not good or bad. That’s it. So why not…

Keep your focus on being the best YOU can be!

Live your own life and find your unique path. Focus your energy on creating your own journey and destiny and be happy with every step towards it. Know that the universe is leading you and that things are unfolding exactly the way they are supposed to. Feel grateful and peaceful just in the process of it. Be the best YOU can be and be proud of it! Remember: you are a winner!

Have a powerful week!

Linda Boertjens

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