It's been said that the biggest enemy
of 'great' is 'good'. The biggest enemy most of us face is 'ourselves'. The
nagging voice says: be like him, you're not worthy; do what he does, follow
where others are going. When you're trying to be like someone else, the best
you can ever be is "second best". Why compare yourself with
others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.
We all do it or have done it at some point in our lives; we compare ourselves
to others and gauge where we are based on what we observe them to be doing.
When you stop comparing yourself to others, you tend to produce more results in
your life, you are able to improve yourself, and get a better vision for your
life. The easiest thing to be in the world is YOU. The most difficult
thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that
position. Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content
with what you have, which means that if you don't have a plan for your own
life, you will be the part of someone else's.
Be an original individual and not a photocopy. However, you may try to change your personality, but you can't. A congolese proverb says, " Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile". Beware! Many spend their entire lives trying to change the way they were made. "To be nobody but yourself" says E.E. Cummings " but in a world which is doing its best day and night, to make everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." The greatest tragedy than can strike an individual is to fail to know himself. Syndney Harris said "Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties and their real virtues". Whatever you are, be a good one. You are number one; everyone in the world is your number two. Wart Disney said, "the more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone els...

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