Your goal should you choose to accept is to succeed. Succeed in business, succeed in life, most importantly succeed in being you.
What is your comparison?
So often we compare our lives to others and we want to have success like Bill Gates, be a writer like Steven King, own buildings like Donald Trump. The problem with succeeding like others is that then it is not your own success, it is not your own triumph.
You cannot play like the blues like BB King and expect to be known as a successful blues player instead you will be known as a successful impersonator. Being known as a blues artist is a far better reputation than that of being an impersonator. Your success is fleeting and not your own.
How many times have you heard of the Elvis Presley impersonator that has worldwide reputation?
Yet so often we judge and base our own future and achievements on what someone else has done. Rather than take hold of our own achievements so many of us prefer standing in the shadows of someone else. Rather than be the best that we can be we compare our lives our accomplishments with others. And surprisingly then we are disappointed when no one recognizes us for what it is that we do.
It’s not who I am.
I cannot be Steven King, I cannot be Bill Gates. No matter how much I enjoy the writing skills and ability to create books like Steven King does I cannot be him. No matter how much I think that Bill Gates was insanely intelligent to corner the Microsoft market, I am still not him.
So my choice is simple I can be the best me I can be or try to be an impersonator and be lost in the crowd. I know what my decision is, what is yours??
