Envy and how to deal with it
Have you ever felt envy, anger and jealousy overtake you when someone else is seen to be more successful ? I had this feeling today. A friend, who also happens to be a colleague, closed a fantastic deal which made the company a lot of money, really helped out his client and earned him praise and appreciation from our management and his peers.
I had been trying to close a similar deal about a year ago and had failed, taking on some great learnings about how to improve the process and my own actions in the post-failure self debrief that I always do. My colleague’s success today, however, really made me mad. I resented his success, was suspicious of his methodology, questioned his character and motivation in my own mind. I had him judged, tried and metaphorically executed for daring to be both brilliant and successful.
I knew that my reaction was wrong. My coach training as well as my own gut instinct told me that my reaction had everything to do with myself and very little with the beautiful success of my friend and colleague.
The reason is very simple, envy is generated due to a lack of action on the part of the envious. Our own lack of movement and thus a form of shame having ourselves not completed the action we are envious of allows us in the short term to take cover in jealousy, resentment, and blame. This in itself is a supremely negative emotion, it does us no good at all. Blaming the outside offers a zero respite from the bad feeling within us. The way ahead is to truly focus on celebrating the success of those who we are envious of. Shake their hand, thank them for their brilliant effort and truly rejoice in their achievement. Sharing this celebration really allows us to be happy in our own right. It also terminates the negative feelings that being envious brings to the fore. In a way we are at one with the success and part of the positive vibe that goes with it.
Additionally it is a great wake up call. It is a way of realizing deep down inside that an action needs to be taken. We are really only envious because we have not been able to do what others may have done. So why not really focus on what we can do ? Why not learn from the success of others and create a game plan for a similar success, on our own terms.
Action creates both self growth and increases self esteem. Intention allows a build up of expectation, which without an action is a frustrating misuse of our energy. Plan and act, do something that makes an impact. Share the success of others and they will do the same. Act yourself so you can create your own success story and place envy where it truly belongs, in the garbage bin of regret and missed opportunities.
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October 29th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Thanks for your post. It is very usefull. But do you if there is a book dealing with this specific subjet. I am very envious over everybody and I would like to find a way to get rid of this bad feeling.
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June 29th, 2009 at 5:13 am
I always have people in my school who envy me like my peers they always talk bad about me they do that because they see me wearing cool clothes like Abercrombie or Hollister there also envious of my looks becasue I`m tall & skinny, they see that I`m quiet popular with people etc.. there always inteeding to ruin me or to make me misrable instead of feeling proud of my success But I learned to ignore them. now 1 day I felt envy because i saw 2 people in uniforms from athletics or some other activities i felt that they were better than because of there success, a lot of girlfriends, felt they were more popular than me, I always saw they were taller than me but there not I had to much negative stuff in my mind about that I did feel envy but I`m not like that I talked them had a conversation on the bus then after that I felt more better
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Well I believe people who are aways envious of you are suffering from insecurities and had got little success in their lifes as a result of that they will try to put you down or see nagetive things in your success but in reality it is a reflection of what they think about themselves, just do not come to thei level and just pray to God that he helps ypu from their mean attitudes and from the flames and troubles of the envier when he envies.
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