Compete with yourself

When we sit and think about competition the first thing that comes to mind is someone elses accomplishments. We sit and try to compare our lives to theirs, because we are not 100% content with the way things have turned out for us. We are not doing any and everything we can to make sure that our lives are lived with a purpose. A purpose of something greater than what we currently have.
See, but that's not how life is suppose to be. Competition is nothing more than a contest, and that contest can be with someone else, or just within yourself. We often sit and think about competition against someone else, but we never take the time to realize that God only wants you to compete with yourself. He made us extremely unique just for that purpose, and that purpose is to fulfill whatever gifts and talents he blessed you with. Not Tasha, Tim, or Tara's gifts, but yours! See God has a plan for us all, and that plan is to live with a meaning. Live your life by doing the things that make you happy.
Alot of us are sitting at a desk at a job we can't stand right now, and what good is that doing us? What gifts and talents are we truly displaying? Is it just because we need that paycheck at the end of the two weeks? Or just because we are terrified to not make ends meet? Why do you think we were placed there in the first place? Is it because God just blessed us with the opportunity to sit and do nothing, or work like a slave and be under paid? Why settle I say? Why settle for a job that will always be just that, a JOB? Why not focus on making a career of your life. Actually using our gifts and talents to better ourselves as well as our families. We as a people need to learn how to set goals, and then murder them with no regrets! We need to learn how to go hard in the paint for something other than the ordinary life. We need to learn how to come together and help utilize our gifts and talents that GOD blessed us with from the beginning of man-kind, and truly make a difference in our communities and even the world. So I say to you today, to sit down and think about all the things that you ever wanted to accomplish, but never had the guts to start. Write it all down, set your goals..and MURDER THE SHIT OUT THEM! Oh and be inspired, because I am.