Envy retards your career progress

Successful individuals remain focussed on utilising their creativity, resourcefulness and leadership qualities for the growth of the company they work in. There are many people who however, compare themselves with others; in doing so, they squander away their valuable time. They try to be what they know they are not and hence are not successful in making any headway in their careers.

Envy and covetousness are natural but terrifying feelings that cannot be avoided; and come to us more often than not. But they can always be kerbed. In their over-enthusiasm to do well at work, quite a few men and women have a habit of bungling their jobs, careers and lives because they cannot resist the anxieties and pressures that upsets them when they attempt to ape others or vie with them. Their desperation leads them to catastrophic situations.

The finest method to progress in your career is to maintain your individuality and know what you are and what you stand for. You also need to prop and buoy up your skills and capabilities. While you can place some reliance on mentors to show you direction, but you have to be at the wheels of your career at all times. If you are green-eyed, you run the risk of shattering your career for several whys and wherefores. Today, everybody is self-centred and you do not find many people who are truly solicitous about towards others. The world is full of impressionists and self-regarding people who are engaged in letting down others in their quest to do well. The truth is that the need to be skilful is extraordinarily forceful and which necessitates an enormously enterprising outlook. Under such circumstances, people decide on getting into a rat race to upset others and craft a picked up image vis-à-vis settling down on their own distinctiveness. Such a disposition triggers disgruntlement and thus envy permeates down to every sphere of activity.

It is envious people who always look for acknowledgement and appreciation; and not significance. They do not want to make any valuable effort to make the world a better place; on the contrary, they feel pleased being part of hoi polloi. Average that they are, averageness is what they agree to take in their lives. The suspiciousness and spite that vexes them do not inspire anybody; it merely contours them.

Given the fact that the world has become a global village today, it is necessary to recognise workplace diversity and yet stand out in your own way. Distrust and envy are indications of an utter absence of appreciating your own uniqueness and are purely trepidation generated by a feeling of worthlessness. It is therefore necessary that you be appropriately confident to enjoy that uniqueness and self-esteem. You may not be capable to overcome the feelings that engender jealousy, but you can surely rework your viewpoint towards things to make your life devoid of any envy. Given below are six reasons why envy retards your career progress and why you need to curtail it:

· Dormant authority: Anybody who wants to do anything has to come up to it, which they fail to. Their failure is primarily because their focus is on others and not on themselves. You must make serious efforts to enhance your brand image and value so that you earn a reputation for yourself.

· Lack of drive: If you drift away from your own individuality, you will lose out on your ardour and keenness. Motivation is always a result of your upright opportunism and awareness; and which calls for fusing your know-how and directing your efforts to remain ahead.

·  Inability to compete: When you focus only on rivalling and outdoing others, you fail to be determined. Your fervour gets slayed and so does your career. Any lack of a competitive spirit makes you believe that others everybody else is dangerous. You fail to identify opportunities, leave aside grasping them. You thus become blind and devoid of any visualisation.

·  Poor social attitude: If you are resentful and covetous, you can never nurture amity, trust and solidarity. Friends and friendship will always evade you. You must therefore, deliberate on different methods to share your skills with others rather than highlighting impairments brought about by jealousy during interactions with them.

· Drained joy & pride: Envy and discontent are complementary. When envy surpasses you, dejection sets in and your self-confidence gets battered. You get trapped in a self-created mess that hinders all growth prospects.

·  Diminished self-trust: If you are overwhelmed with animosity, you will not find any reason to count on yourself too. To be successful in your career, you have to count on yourself and if you do not, you cannot endorse yourself or your skills. Resultantly, you hamper your own prospects of growth.

No two people are alike and therefore, there will be many men and women who will be better than you in several fields. Your aim should be to articulate your individuality and uniqueness; and make use of them for rewarding intents on a continuous basis. You should not waste your life comparing yourself with others; on the contrary, you should make the most of every chance that it affords to learn from others, as perhaps they do from you.