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Why Comparison Kills Consistency and How to Stop It
Tonight I started to feel discouraged as I looked through the progress that some of my fellow writers in the current Ship 30 for 30 cohort have made in the last couple of weeks.
When we start feeling down like this it’s easy to get sucked into the rabbit hole and stay down. But this time, I managed to catch the spiral before it got too bad. I realized what was going on, found the truth amid my brain’s lies, and am going to follow it instead.
I was comparing myself to others, and it was about to destroy my consistency.
Seeing other writers’ follower counts, likes, and interactions on their posts made me disappointed that I haven’t been seeing the same results.
But you know what? It doesn’t matter. Because I’m on a different journey. Mine might be slower than theirs. And that’s okay.
Not to mention that life circumstances have made it hard to write with more intention and connect with others as I’ve been wanting to.
Stopping this downward spiral begins when we catch ourselves in dysfunctional thinking.
You have to constantly be asking yourself “am I telling myself the truth here, or is this a distortion of reality that’s putting me down?”
