THE SCANNER

As The Scanner, you’re good at achieving a rapid overview and analysis of the wide and varied content that feeds your comparison, and it feels like you’re always ‘on’. 


Fuelling your comparison habit is the fact that you tend to compare, in a general way - to lots of people (especially to what you see online), at multiple times and in lots of different ways. 

This can stir self-criticism in a few different ways, can’t it?

  • You might feel exhausted from constantly keeping track of everyone that crosses your path

  • You may feel like who you used to be had more drive, ideas and potential

  • Perhaps you see a massive gap between who you are at the moment and who you feel you should be 


As The Scanner, you compare yourself to others across personal and professional topics, which can be exhausting and make you feel like you’re widely underachieving or behind in general, especially when it comes to what you see browsing social media.

It’s fair to say that you don’t compare much to the people in your immediate circle - like your family and friends - but people on Instagram or in the public eye can get your comparison going and cause you a distraction. 

This especially applies to accounts and people that post updates, images and videos that give the impression they have an easy and/or perfect life. This can suck your time as you spend ages scrolling various feeds for clues and info about how they made it, but in reality, this causes you to feel a bit helpless and like you don’t know what your next step to take is.


I’ll follow up soon with some more guidance to help you, but if I could give you one piece of advice, right now, drawing on my experience helping thousands of people cure their comparison over nearly seven years, it would be this: FOCUS ON YOUR FOCUS. 


Let’s break it down - you’re leaking energy, attention, resources and time, keeping track of other people and scanning their achievements, experiences and progress. But what do YOU really want? What motivates YOU? What does fulfilment look like for YOU if you only had your own vision to rely on.


To choose from my proven body of work, I’d highlight the first step of your healing as deeply understanding your own triggers. It may seem obvious, but it takes a bit of courage to ‘go there’ and understand yourself,  instead of just brushing it off and hoping it will get better on its own… because, let me tell you, it won’t.


I have an entire module on this in my Comparison Free Club membership which makes this self-discovery process painless and easy. To provide a taster, have a think about and journal on your answers to these questions:

  • If you were to be really honest with yourself, what do your comparison triggers show you that you want more of in your life?

  • If you were to be really honest with yourself, what small steps could you take today to rebalance and get back in your own lane?


It’s also important to make and reconnect with the pals and family members that know you well and have known you a while. This builds warmth and real connection back into life which can be a source of support to help you thrive.


As The Scanner, you need to crowd out the influence of other people, social media and their overwhelming updates, and claim your own version of radical clarity.