Ryan Daniel Moran says successful entrepreneurs still doubt themselves constantly. He warns against comparing your path to others on social media, and argues life isn't about finding one perfect route but measuring progress through your own choices.
Alex Gilbert asks, do you ever question your life path? Since I am a successful entrepreneur, I only question my life path about once or twice a day. So I think I have the benefit of questioning it less than most people look. Yes, of course. All the time I question if I'm on the right path because it's really easy to look at social media, to look at other people who are successful and say, ah, I should have done that. I should have done this. Tim Ferriss actually has a great point about this in the four hour work week where he talks about when you come back from either a vacation or a mini retirement, you look at somebody who just got some certification or a six figure job. It's really easy to measure success based on someone else's standards. It's really, really easy to do that. It's so easy to be comparing ourselves to other people. I do it, I do it all the time. I question my path all time. The almost on a daily basis. If you were to see my journal, it is just filled with me analyzing what's going on, what's working, what's not working, if I should change, if I should shut down Freedom Fast Lane, if I should shut down my other businesses, if I should just buy a nice house, sell my businesses, sell my investments and just live a nice cushy lifestyle. Of course I think about it all the time now. This is the fundamental flaw, believing that there is an ideal life path. That is where the fundamental flaw is. There is no perfection. There is no ideal place for you. There is no God's plan for you. There is no what the universe has for me. There's what you create, it's what you decide. You are constantly creating your life path. It is not predetermined for you. So the only way that we can measure that is through progress, not perfection. So I look at what is the next best step for me rather than saying what is gonna create the perfect picture and I fall into it like I want the perfect relationship and the perfect business and the perfect child and the things that are gonna make everything cozy and perfect, we all fall into that. But the reality is there is no end point. There is no perfect path. There is only progress there. So if you have an idea of where you want to go, it's easy to compare ourselves to that picture, right? To compare yourself to what I view in the world as what is ideal. And that's when you end up really depressed and questioning everything you've ever decided. And then there is comparing yourself to where you came from. You know, we were at our Christmas party a couple weeks ago. We were sitting around with some of my team members and we were talking about where we were a year ago, and it blew my mind. All that had happened in the last year. I had forgotten that certain initiatives we started had only begun in the last year. And that same day I had been questioning my life path, feeling like I wasn't making any progress. We only see the immediate problems in our lives. We so rarely look at the progress we have made. And the longer timeframe that you can analyze your progress and the longer timeframe you can commit to something, the more successful you will be and the happier you will be because you have a more accurate picture of the progress that is actually happening in your life, rather than comparing yourself to the supposed immediate and overnight wins that you see on the media and in social media. So it's progress, not perfection.
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