EPISODE · Feb 1, 2021 · 8 MIN
103. We each have ONE job
from Wildly Successful Lifestyle · host Heidi Dawson
www.heididawson.com @theheididawson on Instagram SO we all have one main job in life and this goes for every single person. I’m going to tell you what that is at the end…..Don’t you love a good hook like that? I was listening to a podcast this last week and I thought Wow, this is so good and so deep and the guest was talking about how many years it took him to research his book and my mind immediately went to the thought “is my podcast good? Do I go deep enough? Does my book need to be researched for years? But you know what? I caught myself and I turned it around. I realized I was comparing myself to someone who wasn’t me. That is a recipe for disaster, it is certainly is not going to increase my happiness. It could cause you to quit or not even start because you think you aren’t good enough because look at all that person has accomplished or all of their degrees or “years of research” right? But they had to start somewhere and that goes for every thing in life. If you think that person you see online got their success overnight, I would bet a lot of money that you don’t know the whole story. Do you ever do this? Compare yourself to someone else? Am I the only one? Odds are you do. I read one study that said 88% of women compare themselves to other women in one way or the other and other 12% weren’t alive…just kidding about that last part. The 88% part is true though.. I would argue everyone does it because it’s hardwired into our species according to Leon Festinger who did a whole study on Social comparison. Check it out. I will put his name in the show notes…it’s pretty interesting. Did you know that comparison is one of the leading causes of unhappiness? And social media has just made it worse. We will compare ourselves to others in any area and we do this for different reasons but a major reason is self evaluation because you wonder how you stack up to others around you. But see this is where it gets tricky because when you compare to someone you don’t know on social media, you are comparing yourself to the idea they are presenting about themselves. We’ve all heard about the “highlight” reel of someone else’s life on social media. Listen now....:)
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www.heididawson.com @theheididawson on Instagram SO we all have one main job in life and this goes for every single person. I’m going to tell you what that is at the end…..Don’t you love a good hook like that? I was listening to a podcast this last week and I thought Wow, this is so good and so deep and the guest was talking about how many years it took him to research his book and my mind immediately went to the thought “is my podcast good? Do I go deep enough? Does my book need to be researched for years? But you know what? I caught myself and I turned it around. I realized I was comparing myself to someone who wasn’t me. That is a recipe for disaster, it is certainly is not going to increase my happiness. It could cause you to quit or not even start because you think you aren’t good enough because look at all that person has accomplished or all of their degrees or “years of research” right? But they had to start somewhere and that goes for every thing in life. If you think that person you see online got their success overnight, I would bet a lot of money that you don’t know the whole story. Do you ever do this? Compare yourself to someone else? Am I the only one? Odds are you do. I read one study that said 88% of women compare themselves to other women in one way or the other and other 12% weren’t alive…just kidding about that last part. The 88% part is true though.. I would argue everyone does it because it’s hardwired into our species according to Leon Festinger who did a whole study on Social comparison. Check it out. I will put his name in the show notes…it’s pretty interesting. Did you know that comparison is one of the leading causes of unhappiness? And social media has just made it worse. We will compare ourselves to others in any area and we do this for different reasons but a major reason is self evaluation because you wonder how you stack up to others around you. But see this is where it gets tricky because when you compare to someone you don’t know on social media, you are comparing yourself to the idea they are presenting about themselves. We’ve all heard about the “highlight” reel of someone else’s life on social media. Listen now....:)
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