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Who is the Best Me that I can be?
This is the ultimate question for any of us when you get right down to it.
I am the only me that there is. Though other people on planet Earth may share some similar traits, ideals, morals, goals and the like, nobody else is me.
Thus, I am one in 7+ billion…which is true of you as well. When all is said and done about how you and I are different versus how we are similar, an important matter to be recognized is that we are not in competition.
When it comes to professional sports, spelling bees, auditions for parts in theatre and movies and the like, you compete. That is not the same as being in competition with your fellow humans. When it comes to creating the life you lead and being who you are, the only person you are ever in competition with is yourself.
I am striving to be the best me that I can be. What does that even mean? It means that I look at my life as it is today. The good, the bad, the things I would, could, and should improve upon. As I look these things over I get to decide what I will choose to change — or not.
It doesn’t matter what my friends, family, or neighbors are doing. This is not about what you have versus what I have. This is about recognizing myself and doing the work to be the best that I can be, and all that this can mean.
