Anyone else feel like they’re falling behind every-time they check LinkedIn and see where their classmates are at? Only two years out of college and feeling lost

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Stop comparing yourself to others.

2 years out of uni I was lying in a field in northern Germany at a heavy metal music festival after a long night of mead and sea shanties with some hot Swedish guys.

Now I'm a mGmT cOnSultAnt at MBB. But seriously, I love my job and where life led me and I did it my way. Stop wasting time analysing what others are up to and forge your own path.

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Yup. Keeping up with the Joneses will destroy you. You do you and forget about where other may be. It’s likely they are flaunting something they don’t actually have...

Comparison is the thief of joy

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Oh, I have lost several days of sleep over this, but then I think “whatever happens it happen for good” and I can sleep peacefully after.

Don’t compare your life with anyone’s life , everyone has their own struggle.

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Best piece of wisdom someone gave me was “Barack Obama became President at 45, Donald Trump was 72, everyone takes their own path to get where they are going.”

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Lord yes. I gotta do something else.

Ask yourself: “is where I am now satisfying for me?” If not, change something. Others may or may not be satisfied in their lives, but at the end of the day, the only one were accountable to is ourselves

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