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If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you continuously compete with yourself, your become better. If you find yourself comparing yourself with your friend, co-worker, neighbour, or partner, you need to stop this minute. Comparing yourself with others is the easiest way to lose focus and distract yourself from your goals. As a human being, the best favour you can do yourself and the world at large is to be laser-focused on your personal goals and on your definition of what success with those goals means to you. Author, Seth Godin frequently discusses how we should centre around making sense of what our craft is and on offering this workmanship to the world. By its very nature, everybody's art is particular and one of a kind. We can only develop up our best art by looking profound into ourselves and sharing what makes us uncommon with the world. To him, art is anything that is creative, passionate, and personal, and great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

It only makes sense that competing with others distracts from the distinctiveness that makes our art special. By comparing ourselves with others, we lose the magic that developing our core art affords the world. Competition with others in a sense makes us ordinary. It encourages imitation and, if we are not careful, makes us lose our essence. Use your competitors as catalysts for change and sources of motivation. They are not there to limit your success. There are enough opportunities to succeed for all of us. At the end of the day, you need to compete with yourself and here are three reasons why it's important.

If you stay focused on what you are doing, and your own journey, you will inevitably keep improving. Focus on your business goals will result in growing success. The minute you take your eyes off your goal, you lose sight of why you started it all in the first place! The most important part of competing against yourself is the ability to set your own values and metrics. You choose the goals that fit you best, and what you really want to compete on — and what you don't.And, yeah, sometimes you lose. You might do worse than you did before. Some days, it's just enough not to take a step backward. And others, when you least expect it, you bound forward.

Either way, when you compete with yourself, you won't be lured into other people's competition and their values. Move forward but only evaluate yourself based on meaningful things. Smile, nod, and then forget it when other people try to entice you into competing. Only you can decide what really matters to you.

Kanye West says, "It's not about the competition. It's about competing with yourself. That's why when I play video games, I like playing racing games instead of fighting games. Fighting games are won by beating someone else down. Racing is a matter of figuring out your technique and driving as fast as you can — and that's how my life has been this year."