It’s easy to look at a pioneer of your industry and cry “I can never be them!”.
“They’re smarter than me.”
“They’ve got more money than me.”
“Someone like them only comes along once in a lifetime.”
Too many people use the success of others as the excuse for their failures or, even worse, not even trying in the first place.
Enough!
Here is the truth.
No, you can’t be Bill Gates, Tony Robbins, Shonda Rhimes or Serena Williams.
You can only be you.
If you don’t accept and embrace that, you have already lost your way on the path to greatness.
We all come from different backgrounds. Our mindsets and experiences are as unique as snowflakes. When you lose sight of that, you forget that it is your strength that makes us strong. Your knowledge that prepares you to face the challenges you are destined to face. Your courage that has brought you to where you are today.
Not anybody else’s.
Yours.
We can learn from the masters, but we will not become one ourselves through emulation, only evolution.
Focus on today, and on achieving the best that you are capable of. Set your goals, and be proud when you reach them.
Then return tomorrow, and be better than the day before.
When the only competition is yourself, you fail and succeed by your own standards. And at the end of it all, that’s what really matters.