These are my people

"Insecure people have to make excuses and put others down to feel confident. Confidence isn't walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else, it's walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone in the first place." Author Unknown


I fell in love with this quote the minute I saw it! It manages to take so much wisdom and put it into one simple and memorable statement.

What we are challenged to do is give up measuring our worth by comparing ourselves to others. This is hard, because when we see people with more of the trappings of success than we have, our mind immediately rates us as "less than."

Now that kind of ranking only works if we start out from the same place at the same time to accomplish the same end result.

If you change any of the major parameters, you can't make the comparison. As it is said in the USA, you can't compare apples and oranges.

So our self confidence stems from our belief that we can handle anything that comes up, on our unique path. No comparison with anyone else is required.

In fact, we can celebrate the successes of others, because they are proof that people can succeed. And if they can, with their unique set of skills and problems, so can we.

So we can walk into the room and not compare ourselves to the others there. We can simply look around and say, "These are my people!"

Because they are.

All the best,
Wes