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Stop Comparing Yourself: Improve Your Business and Focus By Being You

 in Guest Post  tagged business / Carrie Greene / coaching / comparison / others / self

In this weeks guest post Carrie Greene addresses an issue that often gets in the way of developing your coaching business.

Stop Comparing Yourself: Improve Your Business and Focus By Being You

by Carrie Greene

 "Stop Comparing Yourself: Improve Your Business and Focus By Being You" by Carrie Greene

I received an email from a client…

“I am feeling crazy stuck in a comparison cycle today – and I have so much to do. Just wanted to share my mind-tape today in case you have any sage wisdom.”

When you play the comparison game it seems that you always fall on the short end of the stick.

Everyone else’s business is better. Everyone has more clients. Everyone is making more money. Everyone else is doing more than you. Everyone else can do it.

Now wait a minute. Is that really true?

If you are going to play the comparison game at least play full on.

When you find yourself stuck in the endless loop of “everyone is better than me” think about this:

  • How many people have actually taken their idea and started a business?
  • How many people have said to you… wow, that’s a great idea, I wish I could do something like that.
  • How many people have taken any of the steps necessary to achieve their dream?
  • How many people have taken the types of risks you have to better yourself?
  • How many people have told you that they admire your courage or bravery?
  • How many people have any sort of plan to take them to their goals?
  • How many people have had the successes or achieved what you already have?
  • What would happen in your life and business if you played the comparison game fairly?

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About Carrie Greene

Carrie GreeneCarrie Greene is a speaker, author and business coach.

Carrie helps entrepreneurs get clear on what they want and understand their value in the marketplace. Carrie helps her clients create simple and straight-forward plans to get where they want with a smile on their faces while they increase their profits.

Carrie spent fifteen years on Wall Street in marketing and product development for major brokerage firms and The New York Stock Exchange. She is the author of “Chaos to Cash: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Eliminating Chaos, Overwhelm and Procrastination So you Can Create Ultimate Profit!” and the forthcoming book “The Value Formula: 5 Steps to Knowing What You Are Worth and Getting It”

Connect with Carrie at www.CarrieGreeneCoaching.com, www.Facebook.com/CarrieGreeneCoaching or on Twitter @CarrieCoaching

The most popular quote from our twitter account from week 6 of 2015:

 in popular twitter quotes

Most RT'd quotes last week on @thecoachingblog

Each Thursday I share the most RT’d quote(s) from the blogs twitter account over the previous week. Last week the most RT’d tweet was a tie between:

“Educating the mind without educating the heart, is no education at all.”

(Aristotle)

Tweeted on 8th February

And

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”

(Henry James)

Tweeted on 7th February<\blockquote>

The quote with the next highest amount of RT’s was:

“When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

(Walt Disney)

Tweeted on 8th February

thank you

Many thanks to everyone who shared the quotes above and the other quotes from last week. I know that there are various aspects that can influence if a quote attracts your attention – if you saw the tweet, personal style, if it speaks to something happening in your life at that moment etc.

Which quote do you prefer?

(For those of you as geeky as I am and wondering what tool I’m using to measure individual RT’s this week I’ve been playing with www.twitonomy.com)