Compare Less and Create More

If you spend a significant amount of time online you will experience a combination of FOMO, envy, and everything else in between. It always seems like everyone is up to something more epic than you are.

• You made 10,000 dollars, someone else sold their unicorn for 100 million.
• You wrote a post with 600 recommends on medium. CamMi Pham and Jon Westenberg wrote ones that were better and are currently going viral.
• You spent the day taking a peaceful walk in your hood.
• Someone else’s is somewhere in paradise drinking martinis by a pool, having sex,and watching PayPal notifications fill their inbox according to their Instagram feed.

The antidote: compare less and create more.

The business of comparing your insides to someone else’s outsides, even though thousands of people are in it, is not profitable, doesn’t make you any more prolific and is really a giant waste of time. Your best work never emerges from this place of comparison. If you’re working from a place of comparison, you’ll always be behind someone.

It was only when I stopped following everyone’s advice to the letter, stopped comparing, and trusted a compass more than a map, that my inner voices, most relevant and resonant work started to emerge.

While it might be flattering to be called “The next Tim Ferriss” or “The Next Seth Godin”a more worthwhile goal to aspire to would be the first you.

The easiest way to stop comparing is to decouple yourself from toxic environments and eliminate everything from your life that brings about your tendency to compare.

The less you compare and the more you create, the more prolific, productive and profitable you will become.

I’m the host and founder of The Unmistakable Creative Podcast. Every Sunday we share the most unmistakable parts of the internet that we have discovered in The Sunday Quiver. Receive our next issue by signing up here