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]]> By: Bree http://moirarogers.com/blog/archives/1487/comment-page-1#comment-5670 Bree Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:19:30 +0000 http://moirarogers.com/blog/?p=1487#comment-5670 <i>If I spend all my time comparing my word count or my publications to someone else, then I’m robbing myself of the joy of my accomplishment. No one else is doing that to me. In doing so, I become my own worst enemy and a self-saboteur.</i> Yes, this exactly. I'm not saying everyone has to have joy in their hearts for everyone else all the time--we're human, not the Brady Bunch. But I don't even think jealousy and good-will have to be mutually exclusive. I can be inspired by someone else's success instead of letting it eat me up. I can say, "I am so happy for you, and I want to work hard and accomplish that some day, too." Of course, then I have to get to the hard work. I'm afraid that step really isn't optional. ;) If I spend all my time comparing my word count or my publications to someone else, then I’m robbing myself of the joy of my accomplishment. No one else is doing that to me. In doing so, I become my own worst enemy and a self-saboteur.

Yes, this exactly. I’m not saying everyone has to have joy in their hearts for everyone else all the time–we’re human, not the Brady Bunch. But I don’t even think jealousy and good-will have to be mutually exclusive. I can be inspired by someone else’s success instead of letting it eat me up. I can say, “I am so happy for you, and I want to work hard and accomplish that some day, too.”

Of course, then I have to get to the hard work. I’m afraid that step really isn’t optional. ;)

]]> By: Layla Aaron http://moirarogers.com/blog/archives/1487/comment-page-1#comment-5668 Layla Aaron Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:11:19 +0000 http://moirarogers.com/blog/?p=1487#comment-5668 <i>I believe pretty firmly that one of the first breakdowns in productivity comes when you get obsessed how everyone else is doing it. I don’t care how slowly you write, if you spend an hour worrying about how much or how little someone else has written, that’s an hour you could have been writing. And then you have no one to blame for it but yourself.</i> This is probably one of the best pieces of advice I've heard. And to piggyback on it, there's the quote - Comparison is the thief of joy - that fits right in with this. If I spend all my time comparing my word count or my publications to someone else, then I'm robbing myself of the joy of my accomplishment. No one else is doing that to me. In doing so, I become my own worst enemy and a self-saboteur. Thanks for posting this. :) I believe pretty firmly that one of the first breakdowns in productivity comes when you get obsessed how everyone else is doing it. I don’t care how slowly you write, if you spend an hour worrying about how much or how little someone else has written, that’s an hour you could have been writing. And then you have no one to blame for it but yourself.

This is probably one of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard. And to piggyback on it, there’s the quote – Comparison is the thief of joy – that fits right in with this. If I spend all my time comparing my word count or my publications to someone else, then I’m robbing myself of the joy of my accomplishment. No one else is doing that to me. In doing so, I become my own worst enemy and a self-saboteur.

Thanks for posting this. :)

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