Keeping up

Don’t try to keep up with the Joneses.

Or the Musks, Edisons, Cubans, or Blakelies.
Or the Asimovs, Dylans, Swifts, or Picassos.
Or even the Teresas, Nightingales, or Gandhis.

Be inspired. Be motivated. Learn.

But run your own race.

Our journey is our own. All the measuring sticks, signposts, and mile-markers — they’re only useful when they track our own journey.

Other benchmarks are on others’ benches for a reason.