by Cassie Howard | Sep 3, 2016 | Visibility |
Have you ever watched someone from afar and been jealous about how well they seem to be doing? Have you stalked them on social media, making yourself ill, by comparing them to you and you to them? Have you questioned everything you’re doing or have done, because this other person isn’t doing it, so maybe you’re wrong? I used to look at anyone and everyone who seemed to be “ahead” of me, and I would try to mimic (not copy) what they were doing, I would try similar speech patterns, I would use the same sales strategies, I would even create similar offers, all because I thought that if they were having success doing it, that I needed to do it, too. But this rarely ever worked. Because I was comparing my beginning to their middle. Of course they were doing better than me, they had been at it longer! They had more practice, they had failed more, they had tried more. I knew that my jealousy wasn’t helping me, but instead, making things worse. I wasn’t able to grow my business as quickly as I wanted to because I was, honestly, trying to be a bunch of other people melded into one. I wasn’t being myself. We all get jealous. It’s a normal human emotion. But what you do with this jealousy is what you want to pay attention to. I always say that jealousy is actually a GOOD thing, because it gives you confirmation that something is meant for you. Jealous of someones new home? You’re meant for something similar. Jealous of the $100K months so-and-so is...
