Weekly Digest by Omotayo Oni

SELF Your Biggest Competitor:

The universe is a vast stage with over 7 billion people with different- boundless purposes.
The noble truth is You can't compete with such numerous host living on earth, you can't be the world best or the worst. Life won't come to us in the same order.
Your failure cannot be written by  the success of others.
There's no single course or timetable that we all must adopt.
Who is early, Who is late, Compared to who? Are question with no relevance to a purposeful living.
There's no comparison between the sun, moon and stars. Your DNA, chromosomes, and prints is different to that of over 7 billion people on earth. That tells how unique you are. Comparing or competing with others is a ill-mindset.
Don't beat yourself up for where you are.
This is YOUR life, it is YOUR path, It is YOUR race and YOUR schedule.
It's noble to pick up challenge from peer group, environment and those who have gone ahead.
But never plunge into the error of setting your track beside this factors.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY wrote: “THERE IS NOTHING NOBLE IN BEING SUPERIOR TO YOUR FELLOW MAN; TRUE NOBILITY IS BEING SUPERIOR TO YOUR FORMER SELF."
When it comes to building an incredible life, there is no limit to what you can do. The only thing keeping you from reaching your potential is a lack of self-belief.
When you look in the Mirror every morning...who you see is your opponent, your limitations and your Competition.
This visualization primes you into: casting your dreams and desires daíly into life-changing actions. It's OK to believe there are physical and spiritual forces advancing to limit you, especially if you come from this side of the world. The spiritual world is an undisputable reality, but that's not the focus of this writing.
Setting in order every external or spiritual factors to our purpose begins with self repositioning.
No matter what shape you want your life to take,
knowing you can have all the things you see in your mind is the first step.
If you have any self-limiting beliefs about achieving your goals, start feeding your imagination with positive truths because if your imagination has no limits, then neither should you.
Competing with yourself is a self imposing exercise that will raise you to untold heights.
It requires subjecting yourself to afflictive discipline and life rendering challenge.
Your Competition isn't other people. Your competition is your procrastination, Your ego. The unhealthy food your are consuming, the knowledge you neglect, The negative behaviour you are nurturing and your lack of creativity. Compete against that!
Compete against arrogant attitudes, against ignorance. Mature and constant learners thrive beyond knowing, they master the edge of wisdom.
We all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past.
Life itself has no limitations, except the ones you build for your own self.
If you continuously compete with others, you become BITTER. But if you continuously compete with yourself you become BETTER.
So, think outside yourself and remind yourself that the universe needs you.
That very little you have, can set you up for a purposeful living.
Your compassion, your ideas, your creativity and many more is needed.
Develop it, improve on it, look into the mirror each day and see a better SELF than you were yesterday and tomorrow will reward your strength, nobility, integrity, your passion, commitment and consistency. Don't be afraid of failures, if you fall seven times, stand up eight times.
Break your own barriers and never give up on yourself.