STOP Doing This on YouTube NOW with Erika Vieira: The YouTube Power Hour Podcast 182
“If you make decisions based on what someone else is doing, it will take you down the road of distraction from you being the best version of yourself.”
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Do you get secretly frustrated or exasperated when a competitor or friend gets better results than you? If they’re getting more views while you’re struggling to grow, it can feel like the worst. Here’s the good news: it happens to all of us! But you won’t show up as the best version of yourself when you’re comparing your self-worth, value and your work with others. On this solo episode, I’m talking all about how to break the pattern and free yourself from comparisonitis! Let’s do this!
Comparisonitis happens to all of us, it happens to me and it happens to my clients too. I get a bit jealous when I see people who’ve started their podcasts long after I did, popping up on Forbes lists and I see them – by my own perception – doing much better than me. A client of mine I was working with for a little while finally hit the 20k subscribers mark. She was so happy and celebrating but totally went flat when she found out that her friend, who she encouraged to start her channel, blew passed her and got to 35k subscribers. Why do we do this? We have our own audiences, they have theirs, we’re measuring something that isn’t equal, yet it still hurts so much.
“Unfollow and unsubscribe from anyone who brings out jealousy or comparisonitis out of you.”
So how do you fight this? How do you navigate the shark-infested waters of comparing yourself to others on Instagram and YouTube? Well, it won’t be easy but you can do it, and I talk about how in this episode. Like everything, it starts with being aware of the negative behavior and where it shows up. At the end of the day, you don’t want to be in a bubble, avoiding every video to stop yourself from comparing. I know you want to take in inspiration and not allow the negative influences or your comparisonitis to act up. So, let’s talk about how you get more aware of your comparisonitis and create a catalyst for you to shift it for good.
“Use your why as a filter. If what you want to do makes sense to why you’re doing it then do that video. If not, then no one will want to watch that.”
3 Key Interview Takeaways
- Follow your own path. Don’t do what everyone is doing just because they’re is doing it. That will only lead you to one place: emptiness and frustration. Your content won’t be any good, you won’t feel great about it and if it falls flat in front of your audience, which it likely will since it’s not coming from your genuine passion, then you’ll feel even worse.
- Your why is HUGE. It doesn’t allow you to get distracted by the world around it. You’ll have a strong and clear endpoint that shuts out the world and fills you with drive and focus. Find out what your why is and spend the time really exploring it. Why are you making videos? Why do you want to own a channel and put yourself on the internet for billions of people to see? Really articulate it and say it out loud. Does it spark passion? Is it you?
- Take a social media detox. Ladies, too much of anything is not good for you. And that goes extra for social media because it gives us so much of what we want: distraction, validation, entertainment. But it doesn’t help us in the comparison department. So it’s time to leave the phone in the bag for a few days, or if you can’t do that, detox from the accounts and people who push your comparison buttons. Swipe away and unfollow those competitors or drama bait that you hate to look at but pull you in anyway. You know the ones I mean.
Resources
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