Protect Your Standards

If you’re a competitive person…

You already know how much losing pisses you off.

Losing to someone else?

That stings.

But there’s something far worse...

Losing to yourself.

Not because you weren’t good enough.

Not because the competition beat you.

Because you didn't show up.

You cut a corner.

You said “tomorrow.”

That’s the kind of loss that sticks.

Most people don’t fail because they get outworked by others.

They fail because they started negotiating with their inner bitch.

Your standards don’t collapse overnight.

They slowly erode one compromise at a time.

Until one day...

You find yourself operating at a fraction of what you used to.

Winners aren’t obsessed with beating other people.

They’re obsessed with not betraying themselves and their high standards.

Are you holding and raising your personal standards?

Or are you slowly forfeiting them over time through compromise and complacency?

Because every day...

One of those is happening whether you realize it or not.

Never fucking compromise.

There's nothing more humiliating than losing to yourself.