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The REAL Competition

Sohan Nicole

We are all looking for our purpose.

We are all here for a purpose.

We are constantly competing, but we have been taught to compete with the people around us instead of competing with ourselves. Our fears, doubts, toxic behaviors, limitating beliefs; are some of the things we really have to compete with. We are all here for different reasons, that is why I find this competition with the world so utterly unnecessary. Imagine how productive we all would be if we worked on ourselves instead of paying so much attetion to others.

A vast mayority of people lives are lived fixated on the people around them. Watching their every move, on guard to see what they do next. But, what are you going to do next?

Move that spotlight towards you, give yourself all that attention. Let the rest complete their goals while you complete yours. Look to eachother for support. Critiscism isn’t always a bad thing, but critizicing everyone without paying attention to your flaws is the mistake.

We are not in this world to tell anyone how to live. In fact we are all here for different reasons, so there is no need to compete with anyone. There can be billions of painters in this world, but none of them are ever going to paint the same. Each has their own style, views, and way of working. The more we focus on what others around us are doing, the more time we lose. Then all we are left with is envy, which leads us to critize people for doing what we aren’t doing.

How much time are you investing on others? Double that time and you will see the amount of time you are losing on yourself…

Are you successful to you?

Sohan Nicole

Success

A word that seems to be in everyones mouths as we grow up. We begin to hear it as children, based on some adult’s promotion, some older cousin who graduated college and scored an internship. Later on, we begin to hear it expected from us, “you would be so successful in this carreer”, “when you graduate you will be so successful”. It’s not that these things aren’t successful accomplishments, it’s who decided they were that person’s success. Is our success measured by others?

I remember thinking “what the hell do they know that is going to make me so successful? I don’t even know!”. I also remember failing so much in college I thought I was never going to see the end of it. I thought to myself, how do i get to this so called success without being miserable?

At that point exactly I understood, first I had to review my definition of success.

We are raised with the notion that success comes with a car, a high paying profession, a diploma, some medals, and let’s not forget all the titles. Who are you if you don’t have any title? Well let me tell you, YOU ARE YOU. And you are already successfull. Nobody needs a diploma, a car or a suit to tell them that.

Right here, right now it’s time to unlearn and re-learn what success means.

Success means living the life you were here to live. Not the one everyone around you told you to live. It does not mean being wealthy, having 30 titles and recognition. Success is a lot deeper than that. It is something you feel within you, a feeling of satisfaction. It is being content with who you have become and where you will go next. It is making a significant change in the world, even if it’s just in one person’s life. It is enjoying the world with all its details. It is getting to know you and your goals, then working hard until you make them happen.

You are the beholder of your success, you need not to look for it elsewhere. Why do we think success is out there to grab? Its in there, I promise. Right next to your talents, your dreams and your love for you.

I invite you to redefine success, give it your own definition and work towards that. Just as the world gets an upgrade every now and then, our perspectives should too.

Our Year

Sohan Nicole

I don’t quite understand why everyone seems to feel like January lasted a year. Yet, something is true and that is the rapidness in which a year passes. Today the second month of the year has arrived.

How much of the first 30 days of the year did you seize?

Truth be told, every year we say our resolutions, we start our diets, we start exersicing, organizing our goals but suddenly in the middle of the month we step back, feeling we have done a lot, and get comfortable. “I have all year.” And that goes on every year until you realize you have wasted years and now you have to drag the same resolutions into the new year.

Well no more of that! During the last weeks of 2018 I declared to myself that this year was going to be about taking action, about making come true. I would like you to join me in this declaration.

Let’s not wait another day, month or year more. We have no reason to, but we do have every reason to create and work to make our dreams a reality. I don’t know about you but i’m tired of looking back at my years and feeling like there was so much more I could have done.

At the end of this year I want to celebrate the accomplishmet of everything I had put aside in the past, and I would like you to celebrate yours as well! This is your year, my year, our year.