Avoid comparing your insides to their outsides.

Weight Loss Surgery Support: Daily Inspiration for December 13, 2010
Katie Jay, MSW

Avoid comparing your insides to their outsides.

The problem with comparing yourself to others is that it's always a case of comparing apples and oranges. Even if you personally know the person you're measuring yourself against, it can never be an accurate comparison. Nobody completely knows another person.

Perhaps that successful person at work is struggling in her home life. Perhaps your neighbor with the immaculate yard struggles with a secret addiction. The only person you should compare yourself to is you. As you continue to change, compare the old you to the new you. See how far you've come, and what you still need to work on.

Action for the day: Today, try to avoid comparing yourself to others. Measure yourself against the old you, and congratulate yourself on how far you've come.
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Thank you for this very meaningful post.  It is hard sometimes to avoid the "tapes" that play in your head as you work hard to achieve and maintain something so important.  Affirmations like these are helpful to keep things in perspective and keep us on a more productive and peaceful path.

Thanks!