There are more than a few advantages to challenging yourself compete rather than directly compete with others.  No one can be you, only you can access true motivation.  By knowing your own personal "limits", (as if there were such things) you are capable of demanding the perfect amount effort to achieve your maximum.  

While beating another in a competition is exillerating and has its place, the true measure should be the amount of effort you put into the moment.  Some matches will never be even. The winners will fade into boardom from   consistently having it easy, while the lessers will feel the wrath of never going anywhere.  Sometimes body sometimes mind, there are times even when the soul will begin to feel beaten.  

These are the times where you will wish you had made it a personal challenge.  Then you will know that all you must do is your best, or better, or 2%, or however hard you challenged yourself to put forward. 

YOU vs. YOU - ONLY COMPETITION IS THE MIRROR

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