Here’s what I learned about my life.

Focus on you, maximizing your potential and illuminate your gifts.

Look I want success just as bad as the next guy.

But success is a subjective term and we all achieve our own version of success in different ways.

For some success may mean millions or billions of dollars. To some success may mean freedom and having enough money to do what they want, when they want, with whomever they want.

I am in the latter camp where success means I have enough money to do what they want, when they want, with whomever they want.

Thankfully, I have reached financial freedom, time freedom and location freedom.

That said, I do find myself comparing myself or my level of success with others.

After which I quickly remind myself, “I’m good. I already have achieved success. I have a beautiful family, I have great health, I have money, I have time, and can do whatever I want, anytime I want, with whomever I want, as much as I want.”

So I’ve realized it’s best that I focus on myself, maximize my unique individual potential and illuminate my gifts.

There is only 1 me in this world and there will only never be someone identical to my gifts, talents, experiences, character and personality.

And the same for you.

And besides, nothing matters in the end as we all will die.

Live your best life and do what it is YOU truly want to do.

And as Theodore Roosevelt once elegantly put it, “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

Don’t compare yourself. Run your own race.