The competition is with the person you were yesterday

A lot of people show off a lot and it's flooded on social media. You watch the luxury cars, houses, private jets and yachts and you immediately start looking down on yourself if you don't understand the truth.

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What is the Truth? The truth is that there's no real value coming out of comparing yourself to them and looking down on yourself. It doesn't necessarily bring some form of motivation whenever you do that, so why do that anyways. Why channel your energy to worrying just because someone is doing something you're not or having something you don't.

I realized it's better to make the comparison to yourself and not to any other person. You might ask, how is it possible to compare you to you?

Well, you can't necessarily compare yourself to your immediate self. However you can compare yourself to who you were yesterday.

That's what I'm focused on right now. I make a comparison between myself today and myself yesterday or a week ago and if I feel confident enough that I've improved, then I call that real progress.

There's always someone better at something than you are and that's what makes comparison a big problem.

Let's even say you were the richest man in the world. That doesn't make you the most powerful man in the world. We say Elon musk the richest man have an issue with Donald Trump the president of America because Trump had the power to make a decision that screws Elon over. So even with all that money, someone had more power than he did.

If we are to make comparisons, we'll never truly be satisfied. However if you do or learn something you didn't know yesterday, then you're automatically better than you used to be. That's the point I'm trying to make.

Thinking like that brings peace and satisfaction more than anything you will achieve because it's in the nature of humanity to want and enough is never enough for us.