Strategic Coach® WHAT'S ON MY MIND Hi Dan, Competing to be more successful than everyone else is a crucial part of how so many people make their way in life. The factors that determine status all tend to be things that we acquire outside of ourselves, so during the time of your life that you're focused on competing for status, you're not necessarily focusing on improving things inside of yourself. What if instead of competing like everyone else, you kept developing within yourself a value that's uniquely yours? Instead of competing and selling yourself to other people, you stick to working on yourself, exploring and expanding your own uniqueness in such a way that other people find you admirable and aspire to achieve a personal uniqueness, as you've done. This is the next stage. This is when you're going to attract the increasingly transformative capabilities and resources of