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Is Comparison Stealing Your Joy and Holding You Back as a Parent?

Published: Nov. 7, 2023, 11 a.m.

This is something Adam mentioned he thought would be a good topic and is also something Rosie had heard in the last couple days, so we decided to talk about comparison. We have all heard that phrase that comparison is the thief of joy, but one thing we\u2019ve heard is that if you find yourself in a state of comparison, it either leads to discouragement or to pride, so it\u2019s never a good thing. If you find yourself comparing, you\u2019re either putting yourself down, or you\u2019re trying to put someone else down indirectly to make yourself look or feel better.

  • Hard emotions as parents 1:25
  • It\u2019s so easy to get discouraged 7:30
  • Patience and repetition 12:30
  • Being in the company of gratitude as opposed to comparison 18:00
  • Adam experiencing a trigger 22:30
  • Fantasy and where you think you should be 27:30

\u201cI remember someone saying a year back, \u2018Don\u2019t give up your why for your why.\u2019 You\u2019re like \u2018Oh I\u2019m gonna create this business, or I\u2019m gonna do this and I\u2019m gonna do this because it\u2019s gonna allow me to spend more time with my family, we\u2019ll travel, we\u2019ll do this.\u2019 and then you\u2019re so busy doing the thing, that you give up the original reason that you did the thing. It\u2019s so easy and I think social media makes it so easy to slip into comparison.\u201d 2:02

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