Hi guys, welcome back to step by step with me, Shelby Church.

Today's episode, we're going to talk about comparison and strategies to not do it because

I have kind of found myself in the comparison trap lately.

I feel like I was on a really good role, feeling creatively

inspired, working on these brand deals. And, you know, it's an ebb and a flow. Sometimes I'm

feeling that sometimes not really. I don't have complete control over when I'm working with brands

and I finished up a bunch of projects. I felt not totally like burned out by it, but maybe a little bit.

And now I'm not as creatively inspired. I've noticed it's in moments like these that I start

looking around and comparing myself to what other people are doing, other influencers,

my siblings or just really anyone I open up Instagram to. And I don't really do

this when I'm like creatively in the flow and excited about what I'm doing. But sometimes I do.

And we all do it. It's human nature to compare ourselves. Unfortunately, it's not really that

productive anymore. I don't think. I mean, back in the day, it probably

had an evolutionary reason, like to stay in our tribes. We needed to compare where we were in the

social hierarchy I've seen, or you probably would compare, like, potential mates or whatever.

But now we compare ourselves to, I don't know, people we went to high school

with. Like, we're not really meant to compare ourselves to this many people, but I do think it is

kind of natural to compare. It can be kind of motivational sometimes. But I think for the most part,

people have a negative association with comparison. I know I definitely

do. It's just anytime I'm doing it, I don't think it makes me feel better. And so I try to not. I really try to

reframe it. Well, yeah, it's not exactly that I try to not because I think it's normal and it's going to happen.

And I think I'm a good person to speak on this

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