43) Who is Your Real Competitor?

43) Who is Your Real Competitor?

  

You often hear about competition. One player against another player. Or one team against another team. We even often see matches of one team from one country against another team from another country

In business, the competitors are the ones who do similar things as you. Be it in products or services.
When you already reached the top or be the best of the best, who is your competitor? It cannot be others as they are not as good as you.

The actual competitor is yourself. 

You compete and try to beat your previous and younger self.




Realize that your current self is not the same as your previous self.

Read that again.

Everybody is at his or her own level. It is alright to be at the level where you are. You may want to compete against a professional player, when you are just a beginner. It is going to be very tough. You will most probably end up frustrated and demotivated

It is not a fair competition for you to compete with those with much more experience.



How about competing against your previous self?
Then it is very fair.

You know you had done that level before. You just have to work harder and better. Your current and present self has more experience and more knowledge then your previous self.

For example, let’s assume you are 30 years old now. You should have one more year of experience and knowledge when compared to you at age 29.  You had managed to learn more knowledge and have more experience for 1 full year.



 



How about the other people who had done much better than you?

They are your friends. 

Yes, your friends.  Huh? How can that be?

They are your friends as they had shown you that it is possible to be better than your previous self. They had shown you what is possible to be achieved by a person.

Anybody can reach that level. You keep improving yourself until you can be the best any person can be.

Never be envious of others’ successes. Their success should be your motivation. Thank them as they had shown you the high level that is possible.

Once you reached the best of the best, you still have your previous self to beat. You can decide to maintain at the current highest level or go for another level higher.

Let’s study a scenario on this.

Let’s assume you are a new Salesperson. You only managed to get $10,000 sales a month. Who is your competitor? You see your friend doing $100,000 a month. Let’s assume the best in your industry can get $500,000 a month.

So, you know that it is possible to get $500,000 a month. Your friend had shown you that it could be done at $100,000 a month. You need to learn more skills, work harder and get better until you managed to do the $500,000 per month.

Once you reached the best of the best, you can work harder to get more than $500,000 per month.  You are competing your previous self who had managed to get $500,000 per month.


Now can you see that the real competitor is your previous self. 

Start from where you are and keep improving yourself.

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