Comparing yourself to others will be the death of your practice

Comparing yourself to someone else will destroy your current solo practice whether that be exercise, art, intellectual endeavor.

I have friends, that are ultra athletes. They run multiple marathons worth of miles a week. I do not. That's ok.

I know people who are accomplished policy change makers, I am not (...yet). This is ok too.

I can not get the yoga move I just heard of at todays class. But I will.

I am not producing art at a world stage like those on instagram, I struggle at times to remember how to make a web server in python. This is ok too.

I do have positive, emotionally fulfilling relationships, skills that I work on, a body that gets done what I want done and a mind that is continually examining myself.

It has taken me many years to come to this conclusion, and to start to practice it.

A step you can take to help this journey is disengage from platforms like Instagram (and LinkedIn) which act as a highlight reel, don't open up Strava to browse, and ask yourself why you feel like this and get comfortable with your emotions.

You have your own journey.