Highlight Reels vs. Behind the Scenes Footage …

We love movies. We always stay for the credits. Always.

Trailers are like highlight reels: they show you some ultra-cool stuff in the hopes you’ll buy into the whole story. The behind-the-scenes section of the Blue Ray disc is full of things that never made it into the feature. A potentially discouraging place to live is to be acutely aware of what is going on “behind the scenes” in our life, but when we look outside, online or in the media we often drawn to everyone else’s highlight reel.

If you live constantly comparing your behind the scenes footage with everyone else’s highlight reel, you will be seldom inspired and often discouraged. Someone else’s highlight reel doesn’t need to discourage us – there’s enough greatness to go around. The more energy we direct towards comparison, the less energy we have left for creation.

As Susan often tells people – “Live your life. Don’t be the under-study in someone elses drama.”