Best Yourself

Finding your Inner Hero Through Self-Competition

In some of my earlier posts, the idea of competing with yourself came forward.

To expand on this idea, I want to relate it back to heroism.

How can self-competition lead to finding your inner hero?

If you can best yourself, it becomes possible to believe in your inner ability to conquer anything that comes your way.

Too wordy?

Competing with your past self is fair competition, because competing with someone who is taller, stronger, or wealthier than you is not fair competition.

It’s that episode of Friends where the group is trying to convince Monica to make a thanksgiving dinner, but she won’t agree to it, so they suggest that she could best her last year self and make an even better dinner this year. Of course, Monica with her need to compete agrees to this and the group gets what they want.

But why does she agree so easily? What is it about besting yourself that makes the competition that much better?

It’s because only you know what was holding you back last year.

Only you know how to improve your inner self because you’re the only one who feels it on the inside.

If I compete with you, it’ll be in something tangible, such as a race, a test, or an application.

The commonality between these tangible things is that someone else is deciding.

It all depends on another person’s opinion, view, and inner self.

Why is finding your inner hero important?

It’s simple, when you are your own hero, it’s easier to be courageous, take risks and say yes to opportunities that would normally scare you.

How do you find your inner hero? By competing with yourself on a daily basis.

In my Arbonne Business, I have to constantly best myself in order to push the success of myself and my team further.

When I know that I can be better than I was yesterday, that motivates me to keep pushing and being even better tomorrow.

Being your own hero also allows you to look forward to the future knowing that you can handle anything that comes your way.

Before Arbonne, I was addicted to Diet Coke, terrified of being disliked by others and doubted myself constantly.

I was afraid of being successful!

This is a real fear, and I know I am not the only one who struggles with it, but Arbonne has allowed me to be around people who are constantly improving themselves, and who can show me how to conquer this fear, while also becoming the best version of myself.

I felt like my life was a constant existential crisis.

Then I realized, that the past is gone, the present is here, and the future is bright.

I’m not the same person I was yesterday, two weeks ago, or even two months ago, and that’s OKAY!

Sometimes it’s scary to think, my past self is dead.

Then I remember that my present self is alive and better than the past self, and my future self, WOW, well, she’s even more kickass then my current self.

Seriously, cannot wait to become her.

Why bother making friends with this inner person?

One of the most pivotal moments in the past 6 months, was a conversation with a newer friend of mine.

When I met this person, he intimidated me to the point where I could not speak coherently in front of him.

Which was fine because I’d only get to see him every couple months.

His video on motivation resonated with me, and so I took a leap, and sent a message, and asked how to overcome feeling like you’re not in the right place, or dealing with anxiety.

His answer simplified everything the self-improvement books were shouting at me!

Have a conversation with your future self, get to know them, and create that inner person. Then think, is watching the Matrix for the 12th time going to benefit that future person? Can I be listening to something more valuable, or doing something more productive?

Every self-improvement book I have read has told me about a higher self and to become your higher self, you must rise above certain aspects of your daily self.

Instead of higher self, understanding that I’m building my future self resonated with me more.

In fact, it changed my whole mind.

Knowing that I can access my future self, because I am her, and I am creating her everyday, changed my decisions.

This mindset shift allowed me to say yes to joining a co-ed soccer team.

It allowed me to say yes to my Arbonne business.

Even more, it motivated me to build my blog, for my future self, which I hadn’t had inspiration to do even after two years!

Becoming friends with your inner self, and visualizing your future self can change how you see the future, it can also change how you view difficult situations.

Your inner hero is also your future self.

Remember…

You are the only one who knows what it’s like inside your mind.

Knowing that, it’s important to compete with yourself in order to become better than your past self.

Visualizing your future self and taking the steps toward who you want to become can change your life.

Best yourself on a daily basis.

In everything you do, best yourself, because only you know what is holding you back, and all the fears that hide in your mind.

Best yourself by conquering your fears and becoming the best version of yourself, now, and in the future.

Blessings, 

With love and light, 

Stay true stay weird. 

~~ Kristina