Why real joy can be found by staying in your own lane

Today’s episode of the podcast is a solo episode, where I talk about why comparison is the thief of joy and how staying in our own lanes is the key to success. This is something that I have had to learn to focus on over the years, but it has helped me massively! I talk about how to know what your lane is and what it looks like, and when to look at what your competitors are doing and when not to. This episode addresses some of the struggles we all feel and offers some practical ways to overcome those struggles.KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST:

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• Why comparison doesn’t serve you, and is the worst thing you can do
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• Knowing what success looks like to you, and what your goals are
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• The importance of goal setting
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• The ways we can let our ego get in our way
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• Being realistic about what you can achieve
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• How work isn’t everything and rest is essential
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• The importance of celebrating every win, no matter the size
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THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE:Keep focussed on your own goals, know what you are working on – and remember, you are a rock star and you have totally got this!HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS:

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• Practical ways you can stop the comparison and make sure you stay in your lane
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• The mistakes I made this year, because not setting my goals, resulted in me having no lane
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• Take everything you see with a pinch of salt because it’s never the full picture
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Hello, and a really warm welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. Thank you as always for listening and being in my amazing community. I appreciate you so, so very much because otherwise I'd just be recording these things and putting them out and like into the ether.So I really do appreciate you taking the time. I know your world is busy. And no doubt you are doing something while listening to this, the school run, a walk. I normally listen to stuff when I put my makeup on. Uh, so I do really appreciate you listening and being there. So this week we're going to be talking about staying in our own lanes.This is something that I think has helped me massively and something that I've had to learn to focus on over the years because it's so incredibly easy to get distracted. I can't even speak, get distracted by others, lose focus and become disheartened. So how do we do it? Like. You know, we know the phrase, stay in your own lane.We know what it means. It means focusing on your own stuff and not getting distracted and just keep driving forward. But how do we actually do it when we're in business? Because it's not, it's not a bad thing to know what others are doing. So sometimes it's helpful to have an idea of what a competitor's doing or, you know, they might have an interesting angle on something that you could offer a different angle on, and then that inspires you to do some content.So it's not like I'm saying don't ever look at competitors or people in your world, but how do we make sure that we don't spend way too much time? Now I am going to admit...