Don’t compare or compete, collaborate.
Comparison can make us depressed and feel like we’re not doing enough.
Competing can move us off course because we might have a different outcome goal than someone else.
But collaboration is where growth happens.
Growing up, when we’d have limited numbers of players for baseball, we’d put a “ghostie” on base to act as a runner.
That same mentality can be used when we are trying to push ourselves harder and farther than we ever have before. We are competing against ourselves. Against a person who we know really well. We know their weaknesses, their shortcomings, their fears.