{"id":7267,"date":"2014-02-14T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:33:17","slug":"vs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2014\/02\/14\/vs\/","title":{"rendered":"Me vs. Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7270\" alt=\"photo credit oscarandtara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Compete.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Compete.png 660w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Compete-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The most noble competitor I have ever encountered is within Me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could look externally for my competition, seeking people out there to better and beat.<\/p>\n<p>I could spend my time and energy determining how I could excel in the ways they do.<\/p>\n<p>I could focus on how they are better, and how I could be like them&#8230; And diminish Me in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I could spend my time and energy identifying where their weaknesses lie, and how I could benefit and better from them.<\/p>\n<p>I could focus on how they are worse, and how I am not like them&#8230; And inflate Me in the process.<\/p>\n<h1>I could focus on the other, rather than myself.<\/h1>\n<p>What I&#8217;d rather do, however, is be the most fierce competitor of myself. Always challenging myself to be the best Me I can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I don&#8217;t need to compare myself to anyone external to me. I don&#8217;t need to be better than You.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I only need to be the best Me.<\/p>\n<p>When I allow myself to be the best Me, I become free to let you be your best You. I don&#8217;t need to compete or compare with you, for I don&#8217;t feel like I am lacking.<\/p>\n<p>I am recognizing my own special unique energies, and the value they create. I am feeling okay with me, and that leaves me okay to be no better, or worse, than you.<\/p>\n<p>When I allow myself to see Me completely, I stop fearfully focusing on what is external to me, and instead focus on my truth \u2014 that I am totally equal and unique to You. <strong>There is no competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I truly want to improve and grow, I need only look inside for how that can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>And to You, I can look for support.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: oscarandtara<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most noble competitor I have ever encountered is within Me. I suppose I could look externally for my competition, seeking people out there to better and beat. I could spend my time and energy determining how I could excel in the ways they do. I could focus on how they are better, and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[292,289,291,290],"class_list":["post-7267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-best-self","tag-compete","tag-with-others","tag-with-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}