It can be frustrating, can’t it? You’re plugging away, doing the best you possibly can (or the best you think you can), and when you pause to catch your breath, you happen to also catch sight of someone else. Who is doing the same thing. And doing it better.

Now, I don’t know about you, but it makes me just about want to go crazy for a few minutes.

I try keeping blinders on, to a certain extent, and I try to maintain a healthy perspective. Where I am right now might be exactly where that someone else was a year or two ago. And I remind myself that, although my business isn’t yet where someone else’s is, and although my home isn’t perfectly decorated yet like another person’s, and although I don’t have my life completely figured out the way still another person does, it’s all okay as long as I’m making forward progress, as long as I’m still working toward what I want to be doing.

No matter how much it might look to me as though someone else is living out my dream, the truth is nobody else can live my dream. So why should I settle for trying to live someone else’s?
~ Laura