Monday Mindset: Comparison

I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "Comparison is the thief of joy" more times that you care to.

I know I have ...

However, I'd invite you to sit down and consider what this really could mean for you in your life.

This happened to me just last week when I went to my first yoga class in over two years.

Let's just say yoga is an area where I get to improve quite a bit. (I can barely touch my toes let alone get into some of those poses and HOLD them. 😬)

And as I looked around at how much better everyone else was in the class, I started to feel myself put pressure on my performance.

And when I did that, it completely stole from my experience. I was so focused on not being good enough that I didn't give myself the credit that I deserved.

What I could have done instead was acknowledge myself and my body for being present to what it is capable of. For what it is able to do.

Doing this has the power to shift your whole world because what we tell ourselves actually freaking matters!

The world of teaching can be so incredibly similar.

We see all kinds of things on social media that can make us feel less than. That has us questioning whether we're actually good at our jobs (spoiler alert: you are!).

So I invite you to catch yourself the next time you're in a moment of comparison.

Ask yourself how that thought is really serving you, and what thought you could offer to your brain instead.

Just some food for thought as we work to be the best version of who WE are.

To another week, living intentionally,

Caitlin