Because You are SMART… can I not be?
Because You are BEAUTIFUL… can I not be?
Because You are SUCCESSFUL… can I not be?
My SELF messages are ULTRA and SUPER meaningful. Really meaningful.
If I choose to look around and see ONLY other’s beauty, intelligence and success, I will suffer. GREATLY. This is very in line with “don’t judge my insides by someone else’s outsides”. Not good for me…or others, for that matter.
However, IF I choose to practice the belief that others CAN and SHOULD be smart, beautiful and successful… JUST AS I AM smart, beautiful and successful… I will invite Goodness, Collaboration, Beauty, Success, Friendship (really it’s a LOOOOONG list, but you get the idea!) into my everyday, challenging-at-times, joyful-at-times, life.
Simple. Nope. I have to CHOOSE it…sometimes multiple times a day.
Let’s face it…Jealousy is a human emotion just like anger, fear, happiness, frustration. It’s normal. It’s a piece of the human experience.
WHAT I DO with jealousy is UP to me. (Just like when I tell my kid clients anger is okay, we all get mad sometimes…it’s what we DO with our mad that is not always okay.)
So…I can abide in Jealousy, beat myself up with it, beat OTHERS up with it. My choice.
OR I can recognize it, decide other women really ARE NOT my competition, they are my sisters, daughters, friends… And if I THiNK hard enough about it, I WANT my sisters, daughters and friends to be SMART, BEAUTIFUL and SUCCESSFUL. ALL of us benefit when one of us benefits. Just like all of us HURT when one of us hurts… THAT is the life I want to participate in and my suspicion is you would choose that also.