Love from, Florence Grace

You know what's really awkward?  Someone openly referring to you as their personal competition. You, and your accomplishments, mark their competition. Weird, right?  I mean, at first I was flattered. Flattered that they felt I was someone worthy of competing against, someone they could mark their own successes against. That seemed kind of cool, and indicated to me that I was obviously doing some stuff in my life well.  But then I really thought about it, and I realised that actually, it was a little insulting. Competing against someone means that someone has  to lose. Effectively, this individual basically told me they use me as a benchmark and try to do better. They want to be better than me. But if they do better than me, that's not going to be good for me, is it? I  want to be the best if we're making this a game!  I'm being totally honest when I say I don't compete with anyone. No one- and I mean no one- that I know has the sa...

They say your biggest competition is yourself. You vs. You.  I would have to agree with this. I am my biggest competition. If I do something more than once, I hope- and expect- to get better at it each time I do it, regardless of how long I've already been trying it or how long it's supposed to take to get better, or even if you can get better!  A perfect example of this is my running. I have now been for three runs since the start of the month and am already forcing myself to be better than I was on the previous run. When I first started, I stopped at every other lamp post. On my second run, I stopped about 10 times. Yesterday, on my third run, I stopped twice. I know you're supposed to pace yourself with physical exercise but I can't help it. I want to be better every single time.  It's the same with my writing, my blogging, my freelancing. I want to create better content than last time, make more money than last time, have more views than last ...