Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” Socrates

Are you a victim of envy in your family? It may be subtle or severe in nature, but it will often times find a home in your own backyard. Regardless of your age, you have probably experienced a degree of envy within your relationship infrastructures. It may come from brothers, sisters, parents, cousins (biological or not) or “family” in the sense of those relationships that have been built over time and may be even closer than blood-ties. Where does this envy come from and why is it so prevalent?

I have heard it said, friends are God’s gift to family!

I would venture to say that envy is steeped in scarcity. When people feel like others have a better quality of life based on the physical or intellectual possessions they can see, it makes them feel as though there lives are somehow less worthy, or hollow and pale in comparison.

It is clearly a mistake to measure your self worth by what others have obtained. It doesn’t matter what aspect is being compared. It could be anything from intelligence……college degrees….or the big black Mercedes Benz with the butter colored leather seats parked in the four car garage sitting atop the highest peak overlooking the city of lights.

Instead, endeavor to improve the quality of person you aspire to be by acquiring these two key growth avenues; first, meet and befriend people who are secure in their self worth and second, by reading books that increase your knowledge of yourself! Dive head first into the experience gained from meeting and nurturing quality relationships, as well as prudently choosing your reading materials and declaring to read the good books more than once.

In order to rid yourself of issues of scarcity, you must always place value in areas of importance, mainly your self-esteem. Allow your unit of measure to focus on self-comparison, rather than on comparing yourself to others. Are you better today than you were yesterday? Have you improved and evolved on a conscious and continual basis? What can you do today to lift and maintain your spirit? These are basic, yet profound questions you must ask in order to take a quantum leap ahead in life. The law of accumulation says we advance in life and make our most sustained growth a ‘little bit’ at a time. By accumulating our effort to improve ourselves, success is certain.

Never, Never, Never Give Up!… Winston Churchill

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