Isha Jain_IMI New Delhi

Challenges – something you can’t avoid to get success. We hear stories of success since our childhood and how people overcome challenges to achieve their goals. But these stories sometimes take form of serious comparison rather than inspiration. It is true that some form of competition is essential to help a person grow and improve constantly but in some cases like mine this took a slightly negative form. Due to expectations of the family and society, I started comparing myself to others at every stage due to which I found it difficult to take pride in my achievements. I always found someone better than me making it difficult for me to be happy and motivated.  
I decided to overcome this by talking to my close friends but that didn’t help much. I started watching motivational videos and devoting a lot of time in sorting things out within my brain. I started looking at people being happy for little things which may be irrelevant to others. I came across so many people who were exceptionally well in some areas and not in others. Over the time I prepared myself mentally by putting lots of efforts to accept the fact that you can’t be the best because that leads to saturation and your scope of improvement reduces.
I reached a stage where I stopped caring about expectations of others and started setting my own expectations. It took a lot of time to make my parents believe that it’s not the society that drives your decisions post which I received all their support to do what I want without any comparison.
“Don’t compare your life to others. There’s no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their time.”