February 1, 2017, TGIW: Unhumping Hump Day…Patience

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” –Coco Chanel​

If we’re up for playing big games in life — career, impact, purpose — we’re going to be pressing our envelope all the time, becoming bigger than we knew ourselves to be.

A natural tendency is to compare: to others going our ways, and to our own ideals and standards of how we’d like to be playing.

The old adage claims “compare and despair” perhaps only because that’s the direction most people go with it.

When we see someone playing better at a game we’ve chosen, we COULD choose to be inspired to know it’s possible for us to play better too…and learn from them.

When we see ourselves playing beneath our own perceived abilities, we COULD feel blessed to know we have more within us to tap.

The main issue, then, is how we’re going to relate to that Self…and whether we realize that it’s always an inside job.

Maybe a new adage is called for: compare and solitaire.

Use any comparisons that naturally occur as insight to play our own game better…with the objective to use up the whole deck life has dealt us.

You only have your deck to play with…

and another name for that game is “patience”.

Got patience?

“The only person you should try to be better than is the Who You Were yesterday.” –Unknown​