You’re the only person in this division – FIT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE

You’re the only person in this division – FIT IS A FEMINIST ISSUE

Nutrition & Wellness


Hey Team,

As we get closer to the end of the month, we’re going to see all kinds of posts about how much everyone else accomplished.

If you find that inspiring, then go ahead and read or watch as many of those as you like.

But if you find them disheartening, then please consider this your official permission/encouragement to ignore every last one of those posts.

Why?

Because even aside from the fact all of that content is curated so people can show themselves in the very best light, their successes are irrelevant to you.

Why?

Because you are not competing with them for ‘best life.’

When it comes to your life-expanding, life-enhancing projects, there is no competition at all.

You are the only person in your division, your category, your bracket.

You aren’t even competing with your past self, you are just doing what you can with your current resources.

There is literally no one else with your specific combination of experience, plans, and life circumstances at this very moment so there is no real way to compare.

There is no way to judge yourself against someone else because there are too many different factors involved.

So while someone else may be able to run faster or do more pushups or stay calmer than you, they aren’t ’doing better’ because they aren’t doing those things while living *your* life.

I’m not suggesting that we can instantly and magically stop comparing ourselves to others but I am suggesting that it is worth noticing when we get into comparison mode.

And, once we notice, we can remind ourselves that we are the only person in our division and we are doing the best we can with the resources we have.

There is no point in feeling bad because we don’t ’measure up’ or because we *should* (blech! Hate that word!) be further ahead.

We are in our own division and other people’s practices and progresses are interesting information that may be useful in some way but don’t directly apply to us.

So, Team, today I invite you to consider the fact that you are the only person in your division and that your practice can’t be measured against other people’s activities.

And I invite you to celebrate how well you are doing – the practices you have done, the information you have gathered, any successes you have measured, and/or the plans you have made, the plans you have decided to implement, and the ones you rejected because they were not right for you.

And I offer these gold stars for your efforts, no matter what those efforts look like today.

Please be kind to yourself out there.

Go Team Us!

A drawing of three gold stars hanging on strings
A drawing of three gold stars on strings that are hanging from the black frame at the top of the sketch. Each gold star has a small bow as if it was tied to the string. The background is composed of diagonal light black lines.



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