Life is full of comparison. Babies are born, measured,\u00a0weighed, and immediately placed in comparison with all the other records of babies born, \u201cshe\u2019s 7\u00a0pounds 2 ounces, which is in the 67% percentile\u201d. \u00a0Kids are measured at school based on test scores, and parents participate by asking their kids to be more like so-and-so.\u00a0
As if a life of comparison wasn’t enough, we double down and celebrate competition as one of the highest forms of success. While this works great on the field, it is an awful ingredient for home and work life.\u00a0When there has to be a\u00a0winner and a loser, everyone is a threat. Sometimes that includes ourselves.
Ultimately comparison results in two stances in relationships: Inferiority or superiority. Neither of those two kinds of people are enjoyable to be with. It\u2019s either a bottomless hole of pity, or an untouchable\u00a0pedestal of amazingness.\u00a0The result: Everyone is looking at someone else to tell them if they’re ok or not.
Want out of the comparison rat race? Celebrate. Rejoice in the successes of others.
Celebrate the gifts, efforts, and attitude of someone (including ourselves), not just the results.
Celebrate them as a human being, not a human doing.
Be a cheerleader, not a critic.\u00a0
(And try not to compare how well you\u2019re doing celebrating!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Life is full of comparison. Babies are born, measured,\u00a0weighed, and immediately placed in comparison with all the other records of babies born, \u201cshe\u2019s 7\u00a0pounds 2 ounces, which is in the 67% percentile\u201d. \u00a0Kids are measured at school based on test scores, and parents participate by asking their kids to be more like so-and-so.\u00a0 As if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[259,65,256,253,257,258,132],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life_process","tag-average","tag-celebrate","tag-comparison","tag-empathy","tag-joy","tag-losing","tag-winning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n