Stop comparing assignments. God didn’t give you their test, so He’s not grading you on it.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Different people are handed different situations, so measuring your performance against someone else’s uses a standard that was never yours. Their advantages belong to them and so do their difficulties, most of which you cannot see from where you sit. Being assessed on your own material is a relief once you accept it. It also removes your favourite excuse.

Work out what you were actually given: your circumstances, your responsibilities, your particular constraints. Ask what doing well with that looks like this week, in specific terms. Then stop checking on how anyone else is doing, since the information is useless to you and the checking costs more than you think.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What were you given that nobody else was asked to carry?

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