live your uniqueness; follow your passion!

Comparison is waste of energy. 

Every individual is unique with unique talents. 

Find your passion and live your best life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Day10: beware of 'compare'

Don't get caught comparing yourself to friends, classmates, colleagues or strangers, although it is easy to do. Especially be wary of the 'personas' created in this social media crazed world, where everyone is privy to all details of friends, foes and strangers' 'orchestrated' lives.  These fictions can feed the green monster of comparison.

When you find yourself falling into the blackhole of comparing, stop yourself and remember we are all different, on different paths, with different skills, doing things with different approaches and at different speeds. 

 Remind yourself of all your unique skills and talents. I am amazed how quickly comparison leads to self criticism and self doubt. We are each unique and authentic.

And to help remind you of your strengths when you are feeling inadequate,

 I suggest that you make a list of ALL that YOU do WELL!!!

Write down what makes you special and 

take stock of EVERYTHING you ARE!!!

This is a private list, just for you, to keep somewhere accessible,

so when those sneaky and creepy comparison voices pop into to your head,

you can easily respond with all you do, and do well,

and then go on with your amazing day!! 

love, mom

print and fill it out ....

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today, let us come alive and celebrate our own personal uniqueness ~ xxxx

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. 

You won't die. You will come to life. 

And don't be concerned with how others define you. 

When they define you, they are limiting themselves, 

so it's their problem. 

Whenever you interact with people, 

don't be there primarily as a function, or a role, 

but as the field of conscious presence. 

You can only lose something that you have (defined), 

but you cannot lose something that you are.” 

Eckhart Tolle

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Project Happiness for their #FridayFreedom: 

with the following thought . . .

"How often do you catch yourself comparing your behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel? Stop adhering to everyone else's pictures. As we let go of how it's "supposed to be", we discover that our picture does not need fixing: we are perfect just as we are, un-photoshopped. "

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Today let us remember to take our time on our own personal journeys . . .

'discover . . .' scratchboard

“O snail

Climb Mount Fuji

But slowly, slowly!”

Kobayashi Issa

In Issa's time, to climb Mount Fuji was thought to be a sacred pilgrimage and each person would climb it, or smaller replicas, in their own time, at their own pace.

In reference to current times, this haiku reminds us that there is no correct speed for which to live our life.  There is no prescribed pace for which to achievement enlightenment.  

We are all on our own spiritual quest with our own personal speed.  

However in this world of social media and the rat race mentality it is too easy to compare yourself with others, feeling as though you are not good enough, or not going fast enough.  But your personal growth is not a race, it is for you and only you to explore, climb, discover on your own terms.  

So for today, stop judging yourself in terms of others and embrace your personal journey.  

See if, for today, you can sit back and observe what is your pace; the pace that allows you to breathe and feel peaceful and calm?!? 

namaste ~

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