Attitude Makes All The Difference
It is very important for you to manage your competitive streak. As with anything else, too much can be a not-so-good thing, for you and for those around you.
Allowing yourself to become too overly driven may result in:
- dissatisfaction
- disillusionment
- frustration
- anxiety
- distress
- failing
- gving up
- poor relationships
You do not want to get to a point where you have driven yourself so intensely to achieve what you want, only to look around you and find that you are alone. The behaviours that you allowed to intensify could push away the most important things - and people - in your life.
How you manage your attitude is key here. You do not want to become threatening or intimdating to others.
Attract Not Repel
You want to keep people attracted to you by being affable and friendly. Being inviting means that you are being careful not to become arrogant and forceful, causing people to nurture relationships elsewhere.
Are you familiar with the Law of Attraction?
If people experience you as being helpful and willing to share your success with them, they will gravitate towards you and support your growth and further success. The cycle will continue and you will soon see that, as you achieve, those around you will do so also.
This is an excellent way to use your competitive spirit to light the way for others to follow and succeed.
WA teaches us this with our 'Pay-It-Forward' culture.
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
