{"id":87,"date":"2021-01-23T05:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.jal.mybluehost.me\/\/?p=87"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:11:59","slug":"embrace-healthy-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/embrace-healthy-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace Healthy Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"87\" class=\"elementor elementor-87\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-66579511 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"66579511\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35f63584\" data-id=\"35f63584\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-481adf6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"481adf6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Invest your energy in making your business, team, and innovation better, not in knocking down your competitors.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The competition you\u2019re playing with are people too and they want to win and are just as worthy of winning as you are.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When you dehumanize, demonize, objectify, or belittle your competition, you underestimate them. No one wins in this scenario.&nbsp;<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">People aren\u2019t bad or trying to hurt you because they want what you want. Trouble starts when you dehumanize and tell stories about your competition that characterize them as the \u201cothers,\u201d as dehumanized entities that are less than and less worthy than you are. When you do this, you make yourself smaller, not your competition.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s seldom truly you against the world.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You can choose to respond to competition by playing better or by acting small.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You don\u2019t have to hate someone to compete against them.<\/p><p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Choosing to embrace healthy competition can keep you on your toes and elevate all playing the game to greater heights creating unprecedented value for those you seek to serve.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invest your energy in making your business and innovation better, not in knocking down your competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration","category-empathy","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-sales-and-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Embrace-Healthy-Competition.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}