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Stop comparing yourself to other people.

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Berel Solomon

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Yesterday I was talking to one of my clients and he told me that he earns over $2 million a year. And I told him, "Wow, that's impressive." He said, "Really?" Because I feel like a loser. At that moment, my client was sitting in his friend's house in Miami Beach. And the house that he was sitting in was worth $12 million. In the driveway was parked a Bentley and a Ferrari. He said, "Compared to my friend, I'm nothing." And reminded me of what the Torah says. It says that when it comes to matters of physicality, we should always look to people that are lower than us. In other words, there's always people that have less than us and we should be fortunate about what we have because there's so many people that are less fortunate. But when it comes to matters of spirituality, we should always look up to people that are more spiritual and more godly than us. And we should actually want to attain their level and actually even be jealous of their level. When we try to compare ourselves physically to other people, it eats us up inside. But when we compare ourselves spiritually to other people, it motivates us to become even