Your life matters (even if you’re not famous)

You sit down somewhere quiet. Maybe in a coffee shop. Maybe on your couch after a long day. And out of nowhere, a thought hits you. Why am I not more successful? Maybe you thought you’d have kids by now. Or a business that prints money. Or a name people actually recognize. Maybe you thought you’d own a house. And that you’d have it all figured out. But none of that has happened. So you start comparing. This guy was a millionaire by 30. She had a bestseller by 26. He became a CEO at 40. She retired at 48. So what? They are not you. But it still stings, right? “Why not me?” I’ve been there more times than I can count. And every time, I noticed the same thing. The comparison never came from inside me. It came from looking outside. That’s the trap most of us walk into. We’ve gotten more materialistic and more externally focused every year. It’s not new. We’ve been doing this for a long time. But it’s getting worse. You might think it matters what your friends think of you. Or that…