Race is long. In the end, it is only with yourself.
When I came here and I began to meet all these people, heard their stories, observed just how talented everybody is, it overwhelmed me.
’You walk with your head held high with confidence brimming to the top and you reach a place feeling you have finally achieved what you wanted to. But the race isn’t over yet.’
Everybody I met somehow just seemed to have more of what is required than I have. It seemed like they already knew so much more, as if we just began the race and they are already ten steps ahead.
Standing at this point you really begin to question everything you thought about yourself. All the pride you took in your achievements. You begin to think, why are you here? Why did they take you and put you here? With these people! You believed in yourself, in the challenges that you have faced and the person you became. After all that hard work you put in to evolve, to grow, here you are, thinking probably all of that meant nothing. It freaks you out. It terrifies you in a way that you want to run away.
This fear of failure when competing with such brilliant people holds you back. It freezes you so you can go no longer do even the ‘little’ good you know you are capable of. This is the time you need to remind yourself that even though the world tells you it is a competition it really isnt! All these people you are running with, you dont have to beat them. And if you want to catch up with them, if you really want to make this count, you need to stop comparing yourself. When you do that, you put yourself down. There is possibly a whole world out there waiting to put you down. You should be the last person doing that. You are here to learn from them. So this time when I felt my confidence was shaking I didn't tell myself ‘I can do this, I am better than anyone else!’
No, I didn't say that. I said “Well, maybe in this case I don’t know shit'. Will learn it from all these people.”
Every day I walk in there I know I am surrounded with a brilliant bunch of teachers to learn from.
Maybe it is this time I shouldn't really worry about what I can add to this. Maybe I will eventually find out. My personal experiences, my life's story and all those little twists and dramatic turns that paved my way to this place where I stand now, these are the things make me unique. Maybe someday I will forge something out of all of that and these todays so I could also offer something to this world to learn from me. Maybe that day is today! Or maybe I am not there yet. But I am for sure moving ahead.
And I am not competing with these people. Oh no I am not! I hope we all make it. I am competing with that person I was when I walked in here. That person I worked hard to become, that Version 2.0 was good but it's time to get better. Those lessons and beliefs I had, they got me here. I need to drop them for a while or forever. Unlearn – Relearn. Because what got me here won’t take me ahead. I need to find a new boat to sail on. I need to become a better version of myself. Today. Everyday.
Version 3.0! :)
’You walk with your head held high with confidence brimming to the top and you reach a place feeling you have finally achieved what you wanted to. But the race isn’t over yet.’
Everybody I met somehow just seemed to have more of what is required than I have. It seemed like they already knew so much more, as if we just began the race and they are already ten steps ahead.
Standing at this point you really begin to question everything you thought about yourself. All the pride you took in your achievements. You begin to think, why are you here? Why did they take you and put you here? With these people! You believed in yourself, in the challenges that you have faced and the person you became. After all that hard work you put in to evolve, to grow, here you are, thinking probably all of that meant nothing. It freaks you out. It terrifies you in a way that you want to run away.
This fear of failure when competing with such brilliant people holds you back. It freezes you so you can go no longer do even the ‘little’ good you know you are capable of. This is the time you need to remind yourself that even though the world tells you it is a competition it really isnt! All these people you are running with, you dont have to beat them. And if you want to catch up with them, if you really want to make this count, you need to stop comparing yourself. When you do that, you put yourself down. There is possibly a whole world out there waiting to put you down. You should be the last person doing that. You are here to learn from them. So this time when I felt my confidence was shaking I didn't tell myself ‘I can do this, I am better than anyone else!’
No, I didn't say that. I said “Well, maybe in this case I don’t know shit'. Will learn it from all these people.”
Every day I walk in there I know I am surrounded with a brilliant bunch of teachers to learn from.
Maybe it is this time I shouldn't really worry about what I can add to this. Maybe I will eventually find out. My personal experiences, my life's story and all those little twists and dramatic turns that paved my way to this place where I stand now, these are the things make me unique. Maybe someday I will forge something out of all of that and these todays so I could also offer something to this world to learn from me. Maybe that day is today! Or maybe I am not there yet. But I am for sure moving ahead.
And I am not competing with these people. Oh no I am not! I hope we all make it. I am competing with that person I was when I walked in here. That person I worked hard to become, that Version 2.0 was good but it's time to get better. Those lessons and beliefs I had, they got me here. I need to drop them for a while or forever. Unlearn – Relearn. Because what got me here won’t take me ahead. I need to find a new boat to sail on. I need to become a better version of myself. Today. Everyday.
Version 3.0! :)
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