Find your own way!

Back in UK as well as here in Thailand.
Wherever I go I see a lot of good and passionated fighters.
Each one of them got they own reasons and they own way of becoming who they wanna become by practicing combat sports.
Everyone has its own strengths and weaknesses.
Everyone wants to become the best they can possibly be.
Everyone wants to be a champion.
My question is:
How do you become the champion,when competition is so big?
First of all you got to become the champion in your own head.
Only you know how much you suffered, how much hard work you put in and how much effort that has cost you.
Only you know how much you had to give up to get what you got.
Only you know how much it really cost you.
So if you are able to look at your performance and say "I am proud of myself, I have done my best ".
You are already a champion!
Surely for many of us that's not enough, we wanna measure our success by achievement in competition with others.
We simply wanna be better than others too.
And there is nothing wrong about it.
That's exactly why there is so many different types of competitions.
People wanna know where they stand.
When you realise that there is always someone better than you,someone who is working harder than you, you push yourself much further than you would normally do.
Watching and practicing with so many individuals makes me think; how can I become the best out of all of them?
Some of them are faster,some are stronger,some are taller,some are more flexible.
Some are better boxers,others are better kickers.
There are long distance and short distance fighters.
Everyone has its own strength and  weaknesses.
Half of the success will bring you ability of reading the game and adjusting your methods to the situation.
The other half would be realising your own strengths and work them out to the perfection.
Find your own,unique way to get up to the top.
It doesn't matter how you got there as long as it was your own work that brought you up.
As long as it was fair way with a lot of effort from your side.