Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today

“The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” (Steven Furtick)

You may think everyone is better than you are, but you are only seeing the image they portray to others. You are actively comparing their highlight reel to your intimate knowledge of every flaw that you have which doesn’t make any sense at all. Everyone has their own fears and weaknesses — after all, we’re all human. Stop comparing yourself to others, because you’ll always come up short.

You have to improve as a human being right? And you might think that you’re a real fixer-upper if there ever was one and you’re really embarrassed about that because there are 50 things that are wrong with you along with the fact that you’re compounding it with comparing yourself to others.

The problem with that mindset is that it’s unfair.

When you look at others who are supposedly “better” than you, you’re actually only looking at one dimension at one slice of time. It’s not reasonable to have the whole picture and then you get down on yourself and become depressed or neurotic — there’s nothing good about that.