We all know the people.
The people who work 18 hours a day, sleep for four and spend the other two in the gym. The people who post screenshots of their 4am alarm clocks, their “getting my pump on” Insta stories or their late-night “I’m still at it” Tweets.
When we see them, we often forget a simple truth: they are not us.
We mustn’t get sucked in to living someone else’s life. Other people’s productivity is their own. Their habits, their lifestyles, their beliefs aren’t who we are. We can aspire to be as successful as someone else, but we should never aspire to be someone else.
My body won’t let me operate on less than seven or eight hours of sleep, so I’m never going to work 18-hour days. My brain won’t let me go through a day without spending time with my wife, chilling out, eating together, watching TV, so I’m never going to spend all my waking hours at work.
That doesn’t mean I can’t be successful. It just means I’ll do it differently to someone else. Which is the point.
The moment we start to build our lives according to the way other people build theirs, we lose touch with who we are and how we achieve what we want to achieve.
You do you, not them.