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You Choose The Challenge

If you pause and think about it, challenging yourself to live up to your best may be more difficult in many ways than competing with others. As you deepen your skills you’ll experience an emotional uplift that is sustaining.

As a challenger of your past successes (or screw-ups in some cases), when you improve, you deepen your confidence and sense of satisfaction. This improvement is longer-lasting than winning a one time match.

If you’ve ever listen to the pro’s discuss winning, you will hear them discuss how great it is to win the game, but their biggest triumph was overcoming some personal challenge they had.

Reflect back on your own life. Whatever you’re doing, when you make an earnest effort to exceed your personal best, there is a powerful sense of satisfaction in even just attempting. Competing with yourself, first and foremost, ensures that you’ll stay as on the top of your game as is possible for you.

Work On Mastery In Your Endeavors

As the humorist Will Rogers once said, “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” This pertains to your life in the context of bettering your best, not just getting past others.

Have you ever developed a skill and just stayed at a level that was just satisfactory? Or, done a job or task so long you do it on auto-pilot and it’s become rather boring or mundane? Learn something new, and challenge yourself to improve, and the apathy or boredom ceases.

It’s great to win your sport or interpersonal challenge. But, having a challenger who is good enough, so that your success is not a given, will overcome laziness and improve your game.

It’s great you have the skills you do, but it’s necessary to keep on growing and learning. This pertains to every one of the six core areas of your life—career and finances, physical health and nutrition, family and home, social and cultural life, learning and personal development, and your mental, emotional and spiritual lives. Don’t get complacent! Keep on challenging yourself to grow.

Staying With It

Competition with others has a tendency to steal your focus. It keeps you measuring your value by an external standard. By focusing on your own improvement, just for the sake of improvement, you begin to feel a deeper sense of fulfillment.

A large part of this personal challenge is catching yourself doing something right.

It’s really nice to hear a compliment from another. Yet, if you don’t internally agree with the compliment–you just blew it off.

You are the one who makes compliments live or die. The compliment you give yourself, has a much deeper impact, than any another person could give you.

Get Your Mind Aligned

I’m not saying be egotistical—just acknowledge what you are doing. Focus on your learning and acknowledge you are improving. The most powerful competition is when you perform at your best, and you can rest in that satisfaction for a moment, without your inner critic blasting you.

It’s great to win the Gold Medal at the Olympics. But do you really think that getting the medal was the athlete’s biggest challenge? Not by a long shot.

It was the day to day grind of challenging themselves to do the best they could. Yes, they compete with others, but the competition that gets them ready to compete with others, happens within themselves first.

Competition is natural. It’s healthy, and it can be fun. Don’t let competing with others steal your focus, or get you side-tracked though. Your greatest and most fulfilling success is based on you noticing your growth and improvement, not the rating of some external standard. Challenge and take great care of yourself—you are worth it.

Best of Success, Dr. Larry Iverson

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