Recognize your achievements

Often we get blindsided by bigger goals or comparing ourselves to others on our quest for self-improvement. This last week has been a great eye-opener as to how many little things I've become better at over the last year or so.
Never forget to judge yourself against your former self and not against others. There will always be someone who is bigger, faster, stronger, more talented. However with enough time and effort put forth you can be the best you can be which inevitably will be way better than what we generally imagine possible. We just need to make sure that we appreciate the small wins along the road.
That is where living is. Not the end result, not winning the race and saying what now. Living is the process itself, an infinite tally of improvements found through our successes as well as any failures surmounted/learned from.