Challenge Yourself To Be Better
You are your own greatest challenger. The truth is that you are not in any competition with any external person out there but with your very own self. You have to strive to be the better version of yourself. Achievement, success, etc, are not an attainment nor a destination, but a constant progress and an effort to be better than you were. If you have beaten other people's records but you did not improve on your own record, then you have not made progress. This is why you have to be more focused on how to upgrade and update on yourself to become better.
In this era and at this point, a lot of people are so distracted with what is happening around them, and they tend to think that they are part of an intense competition with someone else or a particular tend, but what they fail to realise is that they are their own competitor. Someone should not be a standard for you to measure success. As long as you are better today than you were yesterday, then you are already on your pathway to success.
The advent of social media has exposed a lot of us to seeing some celebrity lifestyles and some of them just show off some extravagant lifestyles on media. A lot of people, after seeing this, will begin to think that this is a yardstick to measure success. They will lay less emphasis on themselves and begin to work towards replicating what they have seen on social media, thereby putting themselves into an unwholesome and unnecessary pressure. Sadly, some of these lifestyles you think they show are fake and you will just believe it "hook, line, and sinker." But when you focus on yourself, you will know the level of progress you are making and how to improve on it.
No matter the level you have seen at the moment, and no matter the kind of success you have achieved, there will always be room for you to get better and to improve. In fact, the room to improve is ever available. If you remain at the same spot you were many years ago, then something is not right and you have to rise up and take responsibility to improve on yourself. The truth is that some successes are bound by time. That is, they have certain life span and can become less valid with the passage of time. This is why everyday should be seen as another opportunity to improve on the previous day.
There are places you need to challenge yourself to be better. The first place is your mentality. As you grow, your mentality, mindset, and thinking faculty should also grow with you. If your thought pattern is still the same with the way you thought during the analog age, you will lose out on a lot of things in life. As new trends emerge in life, there is a need for you to also try to fit into by conditioning your mind towards it. More so, the way you think is exactly the way your actions will be fashioned out to be. If you think to be better, it will make you to put in the zeal and enthusiasm towards doing the things that will make you better. So you have to grow in your mind.
The next area to challenge yourself to be better is in your skills. If what you have as a skill is exactly what you knew 10 years ago without adding anything to it, then you are not improving. Trust me, the level of competition that is witnessed in this era is so intense that you need something to give you an edge. It is true that you also need to improve academically, but much more than it, you need to have complementary skills to show for it. A point may come when you will need more than just your educational qualifications to make a headway in life. In addition to the skills you have, there is nothing bad in having other ones too. Trust me, as long as you are alive, there is no limit to the extent you can upgrade yourself. Just become your greatest challenger and motivator, and watch how you will improve yourself.
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