“Different is better than better.”
—Sally
“When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.”
—James Clear
“Don’t seek to be the best. Seek to be the only.”
—Kevin Kelly
“They’re not the best at what they do—they’re the only ones that do what they do.”
—Bill Graham
Don’t ask yourself, “What am I better at?”
Ask, “How am I different?”
“I want to live a life that doesn’t require an alarm clock—one that I can’t wait to wake up and start living each day.”
—Joshua Becker, A Life Worth Waking Up For
“When you believe in the value you provide so much that you are doing people a disservice by not offering them your services, you’re on track to creating colossal value.”
—Benjamin P. Hardy
Can you really think that the inner peace you are seeking depends on the locality you finally choose to live in? Surely, inner peace is acquired only by humbly living in accordance with the commandments: Learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls (Matt. 11.29).
Where you do it is beside the question….
Letters of Elder Macarius of Optina
And if you feel like you don’t do very much, and you feel like there’s no way God loves you. There are some people, they’re shocked, when I hear the struggles that they have in their life, the crosses that they bear, and I tell them, “If you only knew…” like they’re waiting for me to tell them that their problem is going to go away, and I tell them “No, your crown is going to be glorious in heaven.” And you say “I’m just a normal person, Abouna, I don’t do what all these other people do, I don’t do all these great things.” You’re comparing yourself to others.
Abandon looking at and envying those who are ahead of you in the world.
Abba Arsenius – The Tutor of the Emperor’s Sons
Bishop Macarius
Learning about other people’s routines has less to do with what we should be doing, and more to do with informing us about what does or doesn’t work for us.
