You’re scrolling, comparing, spiraling — and you don’t even realize the thing you’re chasing is something someone else is staring at your life wishing they had.

In this episode of I’ll Just Let Myself In, Lish Speaks gets transparent about a mental shift that changed the way she moves through every season — good or difficult. She calls them “blessing blinders,” and the concept is as simple as it is convicting.

Lish breaks down how comparison — especially the kind fueled by endless social media feeds — quietly pulls you out of your own race. She shares how she went from being a chronic worrier and overthinker to someone who disciplines herself into gratitude, not through toxic positivity, but by looking at the evidence. The blessings in your life, she explains, are the receipts of God’s faithfulness — proof of how He’s shown up, even when you didn’t know what to ask for.

But this episode isn’t just about mindset. Lish reveals two specific strategies she uses to stay locked in: stopping the comparison game and letting her blessings motivate her behavior. She gets honest about jealousy, imposter syndrome, and what happens when she takes the blinders off — and why she keeps putting them back on.

What she shares about using what you love — even the material things — as motivation to steward your life better might challenge how you think about gratitude altogether.

If you’ve been spending more energy on what’s missing than on what’s already working, this one’s for you.

Watch or listen to the full episode now on Holy Culture’s YouTube