You Are Your Greatest Competition
Developing and maintaning a healthy competitive relationship with, and for, yourself, is the key to success. This relationship will encourage and inspire you to practicekaizen - continuous improvement - and help you to become a better version fo yourself every day.
This is the attitude that you want to feed and burn inside of you. A desire to simply be better today than you were yesterday.
If, in doing so, you can light the way for others by lending a hand and reaching out to lift someone along, you will benefit in the long run by not having to travel the long road of success by yourself.
When you arrrive at the pits stops and finish lines, you will be celebrated and cheered on.
Life Is A Team Sport
You do not live your life in a vaccuum.
You share in communities and with others. Whether it is a family unit, a work environment or some other sharing construct, you are involved in the lives of others and vice versa.
It makes sense then to approach success with a view to improve yourself and make your social units stronger because of you and your involvement.
Think about the legacy that you want to leave. I am certain that it is not one of aloneness and success that is not shared.
A team is as strong as its weakest link. Use your competive spirit to strengthen your link and to move your formation forward
It's true the competitive spirit has led men and women to surpass themselves. These personalities made us want to surpass ourselves.
Because seeing these people achieve the best of themselves it simply made us understand that it is also possible for us. We also have our best to achieve. The important thing is to do it in a healthy way while keeping our values as you explain it so well.
Ingrid
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I am happy that you found the tutorial beneficial.
Cassi
There will always be someone who's better than we are. We need to accept that.
You're right about the positive attitude we should keep, so as not to doubt ourselves.
Competition is good. We learn from it. It makes us stronger.
Be better today than you were yesterday.
Peter
We would still be living in cages dressed in loin cloths. There would be no going to Tesco (a large supermarket in the UK) for food. We (or the men at least) would be going clubbing. And I do not mean at your local night club but hunting animals with a club to get your next meal.
Look, as long as there is civilisation man will always look for ways to progress in life, i.e to make life easier. This is where competition comes in.
There are always sections of society which says that is not a good thing, then they would whip out their smart phone (the phone made by Apple, Samsung, Motorala etc the world's most competitive companies) to play the next video game.
Without competitive action we would be nowhere.
Aubrey Schultz
Over time I learned to focus on competing against my previous results rather than focusing on beating others and developed a sense of humility (or gratitude even) for the opportunity to perform. I also learned to not keep secrets... if someone asked for help, ar first I was not always helpful, but as I matured I learned to give as much as possible to help others improve. Eventually, I experienced far more satisfaction from seeing others results than I ever did from experiencing my own previous wins.
I am so very appreciative of you for sharing them with us.
Thank you.
Cassi
