Andy Neary, drawing on minor-league baseball, argues you should stop competing with others and compete with yourself instead. Ask daily: what did I do today to be better than yesterday? Then plan how to improve tomorrow.
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So let's talk about who you should be competing with right now to do this. I go back to my days in the minor leagues. One thing I found so interesting about minor league baseball was it was so easy to compare and compete with everybody on the field. Literally, you're trying to get promoted over your teammates. Coaches are trying to get promoted, umpires are trying to get promoted. Literally everybody on the field is trying to get promoted. Therefore, they, In a way, you're competing with your teammates. And I failed at this. I mean, I look back and how often I compared myself via stats, my physical stature, all that stuff, right? But the people that were successful in the minors, that elevated themselves to the big leagues, what I realized is there was only one person they were competing with on that field, and that was themselves. They knew exactly who they could control, what they could control, and they just focused on what they had to do to be a better version of themselves every single day. And that's my advice to you right now, is we're going through some strange times, right? And it's easy to compare yourself to others, easy to compare your losses to somebody else's. Yours to. To somebody else's. The only person you need to be competing with right now is yourself. What are you doing to make yourself better each and every day? Myself. Later this week, I'm attending a virtual retreat because I know I need to work on this a little bit right now. I know that. I know I need to improve my business, I need to help improve my clients, all that stuff. And so that's what I urge you to do right now. Use this time to compete with yourself, make yourself better. My challenge is this. Want you to think every single day, what did I do today to make myself better than who I was yesterday? And what am I going to do tomorrow to make sure I'm better than who I was today? Because if you focus on that, if you compete with yourself to make sure you're better, I promise you, you're going to get through this a hell of a lot better than just not doing anything. So quit comparing, quit competing, just compete with yourself and make yourself a better version each and every day.
