Competition

Competition is great, but this Good Magazine article makes a good point that sometimes we should just compete with ourselves. The article is titled "Americans don't need to be THE best, we need to be OUR best" and I absolutely agree. We cannot expect other nations to not continue to grow, we cannot expect other countries to always be one step behind us. But if we try our hardest and work to solve our problems now maybe we won't be one step behind THEM in the future.

The competition is no longer between us and them, it is between us and us. We need to start focusing on doing what we can do and doing it well, rather than continually comparing ourselves to other nations and discussing why they are growing faster/working harder, etc.

I think this logic goes into daily life as well. If we continually look at other people and wonder why they are doing better, perhaps we should realize that they may be just focusing more on doing their best than wondering why they aren't good enough!  Here goes my new motivation to make myself that much better, regardless of whether or not it is better in comparison to anyone else!

R