#MondayMotivation: Avoid Self Comparison, Just Do Your Thing

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As you all know today is another lovely Monday and I'm quite sure everyone of you know what I do on Mondays like this. This is actually a part of the week I post motivational content just to brighten your day for the week and I hope you'll definitely feel motivated after reading this.

My content today will be majorly on a specific habit in which almost everyone of us possess even though this habit or character can serve as a means of motivation to some people and it can also serve as a killer of joy or depression to some other people. Before i let the cat out of the bag, i will love us to learn from my personal experience I'm about to share with you.

An Experience i can Never Forget

I could remember back then during my undergraduate days in school. I am a bit shy and also kind of introverted and this limited my level of socialisation in school back then such that I didn't have many friends. Most of the friends I had back then were the serious type and we all love reading our books with the aim to perform excellently in all our exams.

We maintained this style during our first year in school, second year and everything changed when we got to our third year in school since we were close to graduating from school. I noticed a drastic sudden change in the habit of a particular friend of mine such that he didn't walk with us anymore, he had to make new friends with some rich youngsters and he abandoned us just because we haven't started making much money unlike the other rich youngsters.

This friend of mine started skipping lectures or classes and he started living a kind of wayward life by doing drugs, fornicating with ladies, partying, going to clubs and many other things. During our days as a fresher in the school, we were warned about such type of lifestyle and we all agreed to live by example but unfortunately that friend of mine deviated from a good - holy boy lifestyle into a bad-evil boy lifestyle such that he became rich. It actually got to that point whereby he started ignoring the rest of us such that he doesn't want us to meet. He started showing off his flamboyant lifestyle on social media.

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There was this particular day police officials came into the school environment looking for fraudsters and I noticed the way most of the people we do call big boys and rich boys were running helter skelter and I had to ask someone that "why is everyone running"? and this person replied by saying most of the teenagers you call big boys or rich guys in this school are making money illegally through cyber crime and this is why the police men are here to fish them out and arrest them.

It was at this point i understood what my friend was doing to make money and i was also able to know why he left us for the big boys in campus. I began to have a rethink about my life because I always thought I was a failure due to the fact that I used to compare myself with him but not anymore!

The rest of us started trying our best not to fall into the category of people who make money illegally, we started doing legitimate things that will fetch us income to feed ourselves and family. I decided to go into content creation (blogging) while some of my friends are into other digital marketing skills and I am very happy to tell you that they are really doing very fine today with the help of God. In addition to that, we all excelled with excellent grades in school and some of us were also awarded with prizes and gifts from the school.

As for the guy who left us for the big boy, he didn't show up on the graduation day probably because he failed woefully and he was feeling kind of shy or ashamed to celebrate with us. I also heard he has always been in a scared state due to the fact that the government are deploying security agencies to fight against fraudsters in our state as this means that he can be arrested any time by the government security agencies.

Lesson Learnt/Summary

The important lesson to learn from this brief experience or story is that you should never compare your life with others. Always keep doing your thing and focus on what you are doing provided you are doing the right thing. You really can't don't know the evil things some people are doing just to make money which will certainly come back with it's repercussions.

Never compare your life with anyone just as Bill Gates once said that you're insulting yourself whenever you compare your life with someone else. Just be yourself, be contented with what you have and be happy or proud of yourself. There's high chance that I may also be living in regret today if I had decided to walk through the destructive path my friend took but I'm really thankful and happy for the kind of life I'm living today as a blogger/content creator.

Lastly, comparing your life with other people life can be a killer of joy to you and at the same time it can also be a means of inspiration for you to achieve your goals and I definitely hope you adopt the later option.

I hope this content will serve as a means of motivation to you through out this week and I also hope you won't forget to visit my blog same time next week for another motivational content. Feel free to share your opinion with me via the comment section below.

Thank You for your time and I hope you have a great day ahead with love from @hardaeborla
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