DON’T COMPARE 

Be the best at whatever and whoever you are.
How often have you looked in the mirror and been content and satisfied with what you see?
Most of us would find many things wrong with our appearance, but that is just the surface, what we are really seeing is what we are inside.... how do you see yourself there?

We live in a competitive world.  It really started in our childhood experience, our families.  If you were the first, or second or third child it all dictate’s how we perceive ourselves. 
Did you grow up with great abundance or serious lack or something in between?   Again this teaches us many things about ourselves and who we think we really are.

WE ARE SO MUCH MORE....
Too often we let others determine who we really are.  But they don’t know, they just think they do.  So why do we give our power over to them and try to fit into the square that they have allotted for us.  Its because, for one reason or another we believe them, we see ourselves through their eyes.  We struggle to see that in a world of many millions of people, how could we  possibly be interesting, unique, funny, smart, etc.

BUT YOUR WRONG!
You are all those things and more!
First you have to WANT to believe it is true;  and second you have to LIVE as if it is true.

Martin Luther King, gave this great analogy.....
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

Everyone on this planet is amazing!  You are Amazing!  You must live and act that way.  Don’t hide your talent, your skills, your love and kindness. 
You don’t have any need to compete with your friends or neighbor’s because they are good at who they are, and you can applaud there uniqueness.  BUT don’t forget  you are uniquely amazing at who you are as well. 

Therese of Lisieux was a nun in the 1800's in France.  She said:
“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.  If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”

You are that Rose, that Daisy, that Violet... you are smart, amazing, and unique!  Don't compare yourself.... Determine to be the best at whatever you are.... TODAY.
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