Who's your competition?

Believe it or not, it's not the person who's doing the same stuff as you. It's not the website that you have just checked ten times today. It is not the author of the book that you wish you wrote yourself. It's YOU.

Yes, you heard right. You are your biggest competition. When you come to the realization that you should focus on yourself more than anybody else, that's the only time your rise to start accomplishing what you are supposed to. You then start reaching targets, reaching goals and even dreams.

What happens when you decide that you should be better than your best performance every single time? Without even realizing it, you'll significantly improve. You will start delivering above and beyond your client's needs and before you know it, you'll be that person everybody wants to compete with. You will turn into the goal.

Do not be afraid to expand your boundaries or heighten your ceiling. Always test your limits. Push until you could move no more and move on to the next one. Your own doubts, that's your restraint. That is your only limit. When you say you can't, that's true and when you say you can, that is also true. 

Impossibility is always a matter of perspective. If you told someone 50 years ago that people would communicate using a gadget that could fit in one hand while seeing each other, you will be told that that's impossible and that you're crazy. So if there is something that you visualize today that others deem as crazy or impossible, then you are pretty much on the right track. When you are aiming for something big, it shouldn't matter what other think or say about your goal. What truly matters is how you pull every obstruction to the side and get on with the fight.

There is no perfect guideline as to how you could be the very best, there will always be someone out there bigger and better than you but what does that matter? They have their own paths to take and you have yours. The next thing here is when you will take the very first step to get there. 

Start getting up 5 minutes earlier than your usual alarm time. Adjust when you're ready. Start submitting projects earlier than the deadline. Start eating healthy. Start working out. Take all of your "can't do's" and turn it into "can do's" one at a time. Break yourself. Compete with yourself. This is a fight that you can win every single time if you put your heart and soul into it.

So, who's your biggest competition? You are! and you are the only one who can defeat you.