I read this quote the other day in the book, The Gap and The Gain, by Dan Sullivan & Dr Benjamin Hardy:
They wrote,
"Stop Comparing and Practice Gratitude"
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” by Theodore Roosevelt
This resonated with me because in life and with all of the glitz and glamour from tv and social media, it can automatically cause you to categorize yourself on where you are on the bell curve of what is considered successful.
You see, when you are born into this world you are born alone and when you pass, you pass alone. Life isn’t determined by how close you were to the top or to the bottom, your life's success is how you interpret its success. If you live your life as if you have not made a million dollars, then you live with a negative mindset, you are living in the gap.
However, if you live and practice gratitude every single day your life is filled with wins, then you are living in the gain.
If you embrace this book's fundamental meaning, it is something that you can start doing today. This is something that my family and I try to practice on a daily that even my 7 year old tells me, especially when I say something that happened to me in a negative context, she will tell me, “Daddy, that is gap thinking.”
You see, it’s human nature to live with critical thinking because when we are kids we are reminded on a daily basis not to do certain things because it can hurt us or put us in a bad situation. This doesn’t help with our thinking because we are told, it automatically causes us to be fearful and not thinkers. When we are taught to question a possible outcome, the result is a gain because we are encouraged to think. This allows us to live with a gaining mindset, because we will constantly learn by our own thinking and from life.
If we live with a gap mindset we will live in fear and we don’t get much gain from living life in fear. So, at the end of our life, if we have aimed to live our life with purpose and gratitude, at it's final end we will know that our life was lived because we did it without comparison and we lived our life with the joy for living. Good luck to you and if you've taken something from this reading then hopefully that was a GAIN.
Go live life-
Paul
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