{"id":151,"date":"2011-01-22T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-01-22T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T00:44:18","slug":"comparing-yourself-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/entrepreneur\/151\/comparing-yourself-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Yourself to Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Entrepreneur world&#8230; you often have to worry about competitors.  It&#8217;s a fact of doing business.  How you worry about your competitors, is where you can excel, or die.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently been reading The Element (it&#8217;s not really about business, or work, or such&#8230; it&#8217;s about finding what your passion is&#8230; your element.)<\/p>\n<p>In the book, there was a quote, that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t compare your work to others.  You&#8217;ll either feel intimidated, or you&#8217;ll copy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thinking about that&#8230; I realized something.  They&#8217;re right.  Yes, you may need to worry about your competition (you don&#8217;t want to open a new Fast Food restaurant right next door to the local McD&#8217;s, and across the street from the BK).  But you don&#8217;t want to compare yourself to them.  If you do&#8230; exactly what I said above will happen.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to feel intimidated&#8230; cause then you do poor work, or don&#8217;t work at all, and your business goes down the tubes.  <\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to copy&#8230; cause that means you aren&#8217;t innovating.  You aren&#8217;t original.  You aren&#8217;t unique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Entrepreneur world&#8230; you often have to worry about competitors. It&#8217;s a fact of doing business. How you worry about your competitors, is where you can excel, or die. I&#8217;ve recently been reading The Element (it&#8217;s not really about business, or work, or such&#8230; it&#8217;s about finding what your passion is&#8230; your element.) In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[90,89],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneur","tag-competition","tag-the-element"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}