LOOKING TO IMPROVE YOURSELF? THEN Don’t Compare

How do you define success?

I’m counting the number of posts about peoples accomplishments and successes. Forums, groups, adverts and timelines. Yet I don’t want to compare myself to anyone. I just want to learn. I want to read about your oddities, your quirks, and where you don’t fit in? Where it suddenly doesn’t work. Where it goes wrong.

But no, it’s all about the act of achievement. About how success can come overnight, how a book becomes a best seller, a video can go viral and fame is just sitting there -  waiting for you to reach out and grasp it. Ask and the universe will provide!

Let’s be honest, it doesn’t ring true. The universe had better things to be doing than to pamper to the materialism of us mortals.

It does however, make me scroll on at the speed of light. Maybe I’m not the target audience.

Is there another approach to doing something well? Not based on a formulae, a cheat-cheat or a todo list? Wthout the hype and the influencer smile - and the hunger to always “impress.”

I don’t know. It sometimes appears not. But I do try to let it all go, stop striving, and instead walk my path with the attitude of a well-loved teapot: humble, dependable, and a little cracked, perhaps, but wholly myself.

Real grace isn’t about perfection but about pouring yourself out freely.

And should judgement come your way (and it most likely will), then nod, swipe the edge of your flat-cap with a single finger, and like Cillian Murphy, leave your coat tails blowing in the wind, and walk on.