Be The Best Version Of Yourself

It does not matter what you have achieved or the position you have attained, one thing you should always have in mind is that you can still get better and improve on your own successes. You have to know that you are not here to be in competition with someone else or to be conformed by their standards or to beat their records, but to be the best of your own self and to constantly improve on your successes. The truth is that if you have beaten someone's best but have not beaten your own personal best, then you have not improved.

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As you achieve a level of success, you have to know that it is not the final destination, nor the end, but it is just a phase and a continuous process which can be improved upon. If you attain a success and you relax without working to get better, a time may come when the success would go into obsoletion. As time passes and as the days go by, the standards of the world increase with the emergence of new trends. So to keep up and remain relevant in this time and era, you need to go just beyond "good."

What distinguishes people is not just doing the normal or ordinary things but putting in the extra to the ordinary to achieve "extraordinary." Even in your place of work for example, when you show yourself worthy by going beyond your normal duties and beating the expectations of your bosses, you will become the preferred staff. Trust me, no organisation would want to lose a highly productive and valuable worker. So at any point in your life, do not stop working to improve yourself so as to stay relevant.

In life, what everyone sees is the result that you have gotten but they will not see the underground work you have put in to achieve the result. The person you see as successful have put in an incredibly extensive amount of work to achieve that. To achieve your own, you too have to work it out. This is just to remind you that sustainable success is not gifted but earned through work. As you achieve one success, you should see it as a pathway to other successes, so keep working on not just to sustained the success but to improve upon it and achieve other successes.

You should not be distracted by the thoughts of becoming like someone else or copying them. It is true that someone's success can become a motivation to you to go after your own success, but it should not set a standard for you, neither should it become your own goal. If all your want to achieve is to be like someone else, then the best you can be is just a second version of that person. Of course, no matter how a duplicate copy is made to look, it cannot be preferred over the original. So you have to focus on achieving your own set goals and becoming better, not trying to be like someone else. Remember that the idea is not to become an improved version of someone else but to become a better version on your own self.

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Whatever you think you have achieved in the past is nothing compared to what you have the proclivity to achieve in the future, but only if you will not settle for only "good." One of the enemies of improvement is to think that the success you have achieved is a destination. It will prevent the person from working to improve on it and it may become obsolete. When you achieve "good," it should not stop at that, remember there is a possibility of it getting better - that is having room for improvement. Even when it becomes better, you should not stop improving on it because the better can also be turned to best. In conclusion, you have to always have in mind that to become the best version of yourself, you have to understand that life is an adventure in continuing, and as such, success should also be continuous and not a once-and-for-all event.

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