A Moment to Ponder: Comparisons

Do you have a tendency to compare yourself to others, to their successes, and perhaps even to compare your business to that of others? Then I invite you to ponder this quick analogy and apply it to both yourself and to your business.

While we were walking at the beach the other day, we passed two women walking. They caught my attention because one woman was quite tall with very long legs, while the other woman was much shorter and had short legs. What caught my attention was not their height difference, but rather the difference in the amount of work it took for each to accomplish the same result. It was obvious that the shorter woman had to exert a much larger effort to achieve the same distance and speed as her taller counterpart.

The beauty in this is that we are all different and all have our own strengths. What you can accomplish easily, others struggle with, and vice versa. While sometimes it might be worth the extra effort and hard work to achieve the same goal that comes so easily to others, I challenge you to primarily focus on your strengths. Just as the tall women was blessed with long legs for easy, long strides, the shorter woman had a stability about her, a strength in her stance. Each was given her own unique strengths.

Ponderings: What are your strengths and how can you play to them? How can you (and others you impact) benefit from focusing on these strengths rather than comparing yourself to others?