Never Compare Your Achievements With Other People

Assorted-color Paint Buckets
Photo by David Waschbusch

“Never compare yourself or your achievements with others, but make your comparison only with yourself.”- Norman Vincent Peale

You are a painter. Paint your own life. If you want a better future for yourself, paint it now. Comparing yourself to other people is like painting a different life. The way you see yourself is more important than anything else in your life. Don’t paint yourself with a negative brush. No matter what, take time to celebrate your life. If you want to live a great life, you must paint your own image. Because it is important.

What Do You Stand For?

Blue, Green and Brown Abstract Painting
Photo by Steve Johnson

Harry S. Truman said, “I don’t believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.”

To stand for something is harder than to stand for nothing. If you don’t stand for something, how can you become something?

What do you stand for? Do you stand for love? Do you stand for happiness? Do you stand for humanity? Do you stand for empathy? Do you stand for compassion? Do you stand for Peace? Do you stand for justice?

The choice is yours. But whatever you stand for, use it to change your life. Whatever you stand for, use it to change the world. Whatever you stand for, use it to heal your soul. Because it is important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing. And if you stand for nothing, you become nothing. Do you want to become nothing? Or do you want to become something? It depends on what you stand for.

What do you stand for?