Stop Looking Around

When I do my best at a race now, it isn’t because of what anyone else is doing. It’s because I am pushing myself against my own goals. And it is because I believe in myself. If I’m going to be able to make a new jump height at Cross-Fit, I have to visualize myself doing it. I have to tell myself that it is possible. Then I have to close my eyes and go inside myself and just push to make it happen.

Watching other people do things that I can’t do might or might not be inspiring in the long-term but it doesn’t help me with the day to day. Day to day I have to go back inside myself, look for the small changes, accept myself and believe that I am doing my best. And this works in other parts of my life, too.

As a writer, I can spend a lot of time worrying over what other authors are doing, how much money they are making, the promotional budgets they get from their publisher, on and on. And it doesn’t matter. That doesn’t help me do my writing. It doesn’t help me write the work I was meant to write. It often interferes with me sitting down and listening to my inner voice, going inside myself and believing that I can do it.

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