better than you were...................

 

     The legendary music producer Rick Rubin was asked if there's anything the artists he's worked with (which includes some of the all-time greats: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Run-D.M.C., Eminem, Adele, Dr. Dre, and on and on) have in common.

     They all struggle with self-doubt.

    To overcome self-doubt, Rubin tells them, "Make it your goal to just be better than you were."

     Make it your goal, he says, to focus on goals you have control over.  "Compete only with yourself.  If you say, 'I don't want to write unless I can write better than The Beatles,' that's a hard road.  But if you say, 'I want to write a better song today than I wrote yesterday,' that can be done."

-Paul Rabil, The Way of the Champion