Stop Comparing, Start Living

4 Things I'm doing differently this year

My last few weeks of 2024, I was deep in self reflection. And I’ll be honest; it didn’t feel great! While it was definitely a year of immense growth for me as I was knee deep in learning how to build my business, the self-reflection made me realise that I was in my own way a lot of the time.

I spent so much time frustrated about not being where I thought I should be, that as much as I thought I was doing my best in the moment, I really wasn’t. I was distracted, unfocused, bitter, jealous, envious and a whole heap of other things that are pretty unbecoming and embarrassing to admit.

But I’d venture to say I’m not the only one who’s felt that. With our lives being on constant display and it being so easy to see what everyone else is doing, it’s hard to resist the urge to compare.

I think comparison and my own ego blocked much of the progress I could’ve made last year.

So here’s how I’m trying to rectify that moving forward: