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Comparing/Encouragement

My confession: I watch youtube religiously. I love watching families film their lives (especially the families that are from other countries) and I love to watch beauty gurus put makeup on even though I don't wear that much makeup. I keep up with a few families who put up videos everyday and almost watch them every single day. I am addicted. Anyhow there is a downside, I don't know if anyone else does this, but I am ridiculously bad at comparing myself to others. I hate it but I do it anyway and in a way it motivates me but in a lot of bad ways it gets me down. So I was on youtube this morning watching a vlog my husband referred to me and he was having a bad day but made a very encouraging positive comment I wanted to share because I want to try to remember it everyday!
"we all have problems the best thing we can do is solve one problem at a time, slap a smile on our face and do not worry, because worrying does not change the outcome, keep moving forward, smile and take a breath" -Roman Atwood
Although the quote has nothing to do with comparing ourselves to others, I've realized NO ONE is putting their dirty laundry on youtube, we only see 10-20 minutes of their "happy" day and "perfect" life, no one is perfect, and everyone has problems. So when I'm watching a youtube video and start to compare myself I'm going to come back to this post and remember!
-B

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