Well, hello, hello. I am so glad you're here today because we are going to talk about something that I am positive we have all done before.

I mean, seriously, if you have never compared yourself to someone else,

please tell me your ways, because I don't think that that's possible.

I think Theodore Roosevelt was not kidding when he said comparison was the thief of joy.

I know as I mentioned this is common, but I do think that there are some other

episodes that if comparison really does ring home for you and you do have issues

with it they would be helpful so before we get into this episode if if you enjoy it, I do suggest you go back and listen to episode

55, which talks about how our thoughts affect our health.

Episode 46, which is the real secret of success, episode 25, which is

trying to fit in holding you back, and episode 12, assumption, your ally or enemy.

Now as I mentioned, obviously this is really common

and truthfully, comparison starts at a really young age.

I remember when I was in probably third or fourth grade I was on

swim team and I was actually a pretty fast little swimmer and I loved winning is

the truth. I loved it. I loved that blue ribbon. I loved everything about it. But my number one issue was that when I would be

racing I would look around. I swam freestyle and backstroke and I was pretty fast at backstroke and I remember when I would take off from the

wall the buzzer would go I would fly into my backstroke and I'd be going going

going doing my thing and then I would like want to know if I was winning so I would drop my butt a little bit just to look around to see if I was winning and when I did that it actually stops you from moving forward you actually just stop moving and my mom would be video cameraing me and

she'd be like stop looking around and keep swimming and it'd be like oh

okay yeah yeah I'm keep swimming and then I'd swim as fast as I could,

and then I would do it again.

And she'd yell it at me again,

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