Let’s not be cheap about our joy for others’ successes 🤝
(part 1 of 2)
Success and happiness are NOT finite resources. There’s enough in the pot for everyone to experience ✨abundance✨.
If there’s one place we can’t afford to be cheap, it’s with our joy for others’ wins. What goes around comes around😌
A whole sermon! 🗣️
May you and this community learn the value of the growth mindset and limiting beliefs… also the whole Divergent/Convergent Thinking tennis [or aetherical pickleball] match as discussed in that four minute Harvard Business School video?!
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This is 100% true. I noticed this in the people I knew who had the money but deliberately tipped poorly. They were the same people complained when they weren’t achieving the same accolades, pay or results as others. They also often complained about people being “unkind” or “not nice.” It dawned on me that they lacked a generous spirit and that mindset permeated their lives.
It’s true
On a parallel note – for people who are feeling threatened by these things, there may be a problem of either real or constructed scarcity that is a driving force for that feeling. Many people who experienced trauma often have to deal with issues of scarcity and so the same thing that feels good to a person who doesn’t experience scarcity would feel threatening to someone who does. It’s ok to have those feelings, and what they do is point us to what we need, and there are healthy ways of seeking that while also acknowledging that our feelings have very little to do with the other person, and more to do with our own experiences of life.
I have much defects, but be envious Is not one of them.
I mean, briefly feeling envy or jealousy is not a problem / can maybe even be quite normal, but what’s important is if and how you recognize it and deal with it.
I can actually be quite envious sometimes, but I’ll catch myself pretty quickly, recognize internally that this stems from the way I was raised, reasses the situation objectively, acknowledge that another’s achievements are rooted in their merit and/or circumstances but have ultimately nothing to do with my merit or my circumstances and subsequently my achievements.
I confront myself with the fact that just bc I might like to have the same I wouldn’t want to take away from someone else’s happiness, so I might as well feel happy for them and see it as a good sign and inspiration.
I am genuinely grateful for my opportunities in life and proud of what I managed to achieve so far but can sometimes be almost resentful of past mistakes and missed opportunities – which also stems from the way I was raised (the mistakes as well as this way of thinking).
It is hard when one has grown up in scarcity mindset bc it permeates everything.
Am I cheap by not being able to concentrate on her messages as I was watching her eyebrows move up and down in the frames of her glasses.
I agree that no one should begrudgingly withhold positivity, benefits, resources, ect. from another in the hope or belief that they will retain more or gain more.
However, I also believe there is a balance that persists in the world (spiritual and physical) and in our lives.
I do believe that some have more and others have less to maintain this balance, but not to the extent we see it.
There is obvious and deliberate greed(among other things) that runs rampant in our society.
An the balance I’m talking about is sorely off center because of it.
Love the haircut!!!
And the content one the video too ❤
I wish TFD shorts had captions 😭😭