Run your own race. That’s really the first lesson I learned from one of my mentors. Run your own race, Stay in your own lane. You have no competition if you are in your own division.
What I mean by that is simply this. It’s so easy to get swept off your game, swept off your vision, swept off your values, swept off your focus when you’re measuring your success and your performance by your so-called peers in your industry or your competition within your craft. That first lesson was so profound. He simply said, “Run your own race.”
Come up with your ambition, come up with your vision, and have the singular focus and the character discipline to say, “I’m just going to put these blinders on and stay true to myself. True to my values. True to my vision.
