“Comparison is like pressing a bruise. All you get out of comparing yourself to someone else is pain.”
Imagine these scenarios: the person who last used the barbell and leaves 80kg on it, the spin class where it seems everyone but you manages to shift up a gear when the music drops and the runner who effortlessly glides past at double the speed.
It’s feels like we have all the pressure to be on the top of our game. But we feel beaten already. We take some time out, scroll through social media and a continuous stream of images pops up of the ‘perfect’ life. Sound familiar?
Society presents us with an ideal that we should conform to. If we don’t, we feel we’re not good enough.
We’re all guilty of comparing ourselves to others, and it hurts.
The road of comparison only goes one way, and the destination is self-doubt.
Believe it or not, self-doubt affects us all. It’s often hidden behind forced smiles and picture-perfect social posts, but as you’re about to discover, those we compare ourselves to also experience these feelings. If self-doubt is creeping in right now, you’re not alone.
As we step into the last few months of 2024, the pressure to reinvent ourselves is more heightened than ever. We set ourselves goals to improve. We’ll be happier, healthier and better versions of the people we were before.
But what if we don’t meet our own high expectations? What if our goals are (in our minds) out of reach? What if we give in?
Self-doubt can be overcome with the right inspiration, mindset and actions. It takes determination, but it can be turned from a negative into a positive and used to power a journey to self-belief.
The first hurdle is realising the battle is not you vs them. It’s time to flip the script.
This is You vs You.
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