The World Rearranges Around You

I once wrote that your main source of competition is yourself.  While you are competing with yourself to improve from a day to the following day, the world or social environment you are in adapts to your progression.  This matches with the mindset of abundance that is supported by many, as the idea that the world is negatively impacted by your efforts only seems true in a scarcity mindset.  Here, I discuss how your contributions create their own space to flourish.

Focus On Your Impact

Long before I wrote about it, Tara hit on this competition concept in The Flow: 40 Days to Total Life Transformation, in her section titled “Focus on yourself, not on your competition.”  Here she described how competition is not even something to view as an actual entity, or as something that exists.  She talks about being the actual person you are and focusing on your own items of effort.  When you think about the impact on others, or if you will be pushing people the wrong way, you are actually giving them the energy that you should be using for your own tasks.

Eminem Created An Added Dimension

Eminem rose up in a large sea of rappers.  He ran across thousands of competitors along the way, and most of them were intimidated by him at the time, as they saw his drive and effort as much more than their own.  If he had focused on pleasing each person, he would be nowhere today.  In addition, he worked to excel whether the multitude of individuals was there or not.  Although “competitors” can remind you of your position or motivation, you can see the whole scenario play out without anyone else involved, with you improving day by day regardless of who else is watching.

When he was working on getting multiple rhymes in each of his lyric lines, which he described as doing “syllables” with his group, other people had plenty of opportunity to do the same; however, he was on his own path and they were on theirs.  As he continued to build up his skill in this ability, along with associated skills and boosted confidence, the world around him took notice and a space/niche had been created.  Others have had years to mimic his multi-syllabic rhymes but no one has accepted the role.  The “competition” he had at the beginning wasn’t even there.

Molecules Open Up A Space And Become Situated In It

You can think of it like you are a water molecule that is added into a milliliter of water in a centrifuge tube.  Due to molecular attractive and repulsive interactions, all the other molecules will move in order to provide you with your own space.  You can deny that for many years, speaking as though your space has not been provided, but that shows a lack of appreciation for what others are ready to provide you.  Give them the benefit of the doubt.

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