What Makes It Easy Clapping For Others

Them Joneses. The fence on the other side with the green(er) looking grass. When you graduate high-school they’re wondering what's the hold up with your undergrad degree. And after you get the undergrad paper it looks like everyone is waving and flashing the Graduate and Masters and PhDs, followed by the house... the one with the five bedrooms, two car (at least) garage, underground swimming pool in the backyard, waterfall out front, and white picket fence (todays gated fortress). And oh, you don't have a fine spouse and children to go with all this? And that's not all.

There are Joneses living on second floors talkin’ about they (at least) have four windows to throw their pot of YKW out of. The point. There's no end to the Joneses. They are everywhere. Everybody has something someone else doesn’t. No One... ABSOLUTELY NO ONE owns all the letters to success and happiness. HOWEVER, if we stop looking over fences at the Joneses, letting others define what success is and isn’t, the greener our own lawn will appear.  

I just finished reading ‘Everyday I’m Hustling' by Vivica A. Fox (other thoughts). It was an awesome book because shortly before reading it I had watched a few documentaries where it dawned on me what icons ALL have in common. 

Their Spot Is Already Taken!  

However, here’s the thing. Everyone has a story, a unique story with potential to create ‘that’ spot too. It’s a hard sell though. Standing out, and being different, often hustling alone in your own lane… perhaps ‘ahead of your time’ lookin’ over at the Joneses doesn’t always feel so great. But read some of these memoirs. It’s easy to clap for those who learned how to make a difference with their different.

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