Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.

No one lives your life for you. You have to live your own life. You and everyone else all have individual goals, dreams, desires, and reasons for living. You know your reasons better than anyone else. You are in control of your own life. You are the leader. You are in a competition with yourself. Not others. Throw on the blinders. Have tunnel vision. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.

“Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing."—Jason Fried

Focusing on the work of others only hurts your individual pursuits. Comparison will take your joy and will detract you from the task at hand. No one is going to complete your pursuits for you. You must choose to focus. You must choose to ignore. As you ignore, you become obsessed. What you are pursuing becomes a part of you. As it becomes part of you, you think about it all of the time. Walking in the park, making breakfast, and finishing a set at the gym, no matter what you do, you are still thinking. Inspiration is everywhere. Solutions to your problems are everywhere. When you ignore and focus internally you set yourself up to pull inspiration from everywhere. Throw the blinders on. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.

When you fail to ignore, you remove yourself from any opportunity of flowing constantly with new ideas for your pursuits. You are too busy worrying about what they are doing on vacation. You are too busy worrying about what they are doing with their lives. You are too busy worrying about what they are doing. They is not you, and they does not matter when it comes to your pursuits and goals. They is merely a distraction you have chosen to give power to as a result of your failure to ignore. Throw the blinders on. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.

Ignoring does not mean becoming a lone ranger and operating completely solo. You are still able to have fun and cultivate relationships while also choosing to ignore the outside noise. Ignoring means prioritizing what is happening in your own life in your own mind. It means you will not let the path of others occupy the valuable real estate within your own mind. That real estate is needed to build what you are trying to do. Do not give it up to others. Do not give others the power or keys to your mind. Use those resources to elevate yourself further. Throw the blinders on. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.