No, no, no…<\/p>\n
I’m not talking about THAT.<\/p>\n
(Get your mind out of the gutter<\/em>…)<\/p>\n Listen:<\/p>\n One of the best success quotes I’ve ever heard is from pro quarterback (and NFL Hall-Of-Famer) Steve Young when he said:<\/p>\n “The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh yeah, baby!<\/p>\n That quote is solid gold.<\/p>\n When you compete against yourself… ignore what everyone else is doing… and instead keep trying to only beat your own “records”… how can you possibly lose?<\/p>\n You can’t.<\/p>\n It’s impossible.<\/p>\n You can ONLY get better and more successful.<\/p>\n I’ve been applying this daily for 10 years and I can tell you, there is NO better way to master and excel at what you do than by striving to always do better than your last best accomplishment.<\/p>\n To play the game better than you did before.<\/strong><\/p>\n And to strive to do even BETTER the next time.<\/p>\n The philosophy works, mi amigo.<\/p>\n But, you know what?<\/p>\n As good as this works…<\/p>\n There’s also a time to do the exact polar OPPOSITE — and play the game against others.<\/p>\n Look, none of my colleagues knows this.<\/p>\n (Guess they will now…)<\/p>\n But I’ve spent the past few years “competing” (silently, in my mind) with many of them.<\/p>\n Not in a “I hope they lose!” kinda way.<\/p>\n But in a “how can I outdo what they just did?” way.<\/p>\n For example:<\/p>\n I’d see a sales letter someone in one of my mastermind groups wrote, and think, “that’s fraggin’ brilliant — I gotta step up my game!”<\/p>\n And it’d motivate me.<\/p>\n Push me to work harder.<\/p>\n Dig deeper into my market and product.<\/p>\n And result in nothing by my BEST effort.<\/p>\n (Even if I could “get away” with dogging it…)<\/p>\n It doesn’t take long of doing that to get good (really good!) at what you do and start sticking out from the bleating herd of wannabes.<\/p>\n Anyway, something to think about.<\/p>\n Have yourself a great weekend.<\/p>\n And don’t forget to check out:<\/p>\n