Slap #012: Stop Comparing Your Chapter 1 to Someone Else’s Chapter 20.
You are measuring growth by someone else’s edited timeline.
You are holding your beginner steps up against someone else’s polished legacy and wondering why you feel small.
You forgot that:
• They were awkward once.
• They had doubts too.
• They were once exactly where you are, but they kept going.
You are comparing your draft to their finished manuscript.
And it is not just unfair. It is self-destructive.
You are not late. You are early in the process.
• Let people be ahead of you.
• Let people be better than you.
• Let their success be proof that progress is real.
You do not need to catch up.
You need to keep going.
The only comparison that matters is who you were yesterday.
So today?
- Stay in your lane.
- Build at your pace.
- Celebrate being at the start, because that means you started.
Everyone you admire was once a nobody with a keyboard, a notebook, or a terrifying idea and a shaky voice.
You are doing fine.
Hope this one struck (pun always intended) a chord as well. Sing.
Until tomorrow.
What would happen if you stopped measuring your progress with someone else’s ruler?
