No Room for Jealousy

Jealousy can kill you.  Literally.  It can acid through your insides and drive you mad.  And for what? 

If you're the jealous type, overcoming it can be challenging.  It's learning to rewire your brain and realizing your jealousy is just a frustration with yourself. 

I'm not trying to be harsh.  It's important to be reflective.  Take an honest look at yourself.  Do you compare yourself to others?  How frequently?  Are you proud of yourself and the person you currently are?  Are your goals in line with the future your current path is leading you?

Those are things you need to look at first.  Then we can look at overcoming it!

One good way to start?  Start being genuinely excited for the other person's news.  Harder than you were hoping?  Take yourself out of the equation.  Imagine you had everything.  Would you still be jealous of what they're saying?  Probably not!  You'd be really really happy for that person!

You see, the more you put out positivity and genuine excitement for others, the more it'll come back to you.  Is it a 1-to-1 give back?  Doubtful.  That's not how the universe, or karma, or whatever you want to call it, works.  But your harboring acidic negativity is definitely not doing you any favors!

So, start by smiling.  Take a deep breath, and imagine how you would want a friend to react if you told them the news instead of someone else telling it to you.

Now, "rinse and repeat".  :-)