Why Success Often Drives Friends Apart


You're reading Why Success Often Drives Friends Apart, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Sometimes when those close to us reach success in their careers or personal life, we start to get jealous and wonder why weren't as fortunate. Some people have fundamental difficulties with handling success—in particular, the success of others. We can accept that strangers are successful, but sometimes it bothers us to see our friends, a former classmate, colleague, and sometimes even our own siblings succeed, even though we genuinely care and have love for them. Success can come in many forms. It might be getting that high paying cool new job, losing a lot of weight, or finding a new mate. However, success among our closest friends is often the most problematic. If you have ever felt a hint of jealousy or perhaps been envious of your friend’s success, it is essential to take th
https://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/why-success-often-drives-friends-apart/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to Stay Sane When Your World is Spinning Out of Control

Image
You're reading How to Stay Sane When Your World is Spinning Out of Control, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. You may going through agonizing circumstances in your life right now. Your romantic relationships or marriage could be tearing at the seams and you may not be able to hang on much longer. Or some other kind of family relationship may be tearing your heart in half. People may be making you choose sides. Blackmailing you. Threatening you. Giving you the silent treatment. When emotional family drama consumes your life, it feels like everything is spinning out of control. The very people who love you are turning your life upside down. How do you remain sane when the emotional turmoil of your life is tearing you apart? How do you remain above the shore when family drama and emotional turmoil are trying to sink you? How do you stay sane when your world feels li...
Read more

5 Things to Do When You Aren’t Hopeful About Anything

Image
You're reading 5 Things to Do When You Aren t Hopeful About Anything, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. You dream. You make goals. You work hard. You expect results. But, a lot of times those expectations are not met. You don’t achieve your goals. You lose hope. Life seems so unfair when you do everything you can and still don’t get the desired results. You think nothing is going your way anyway, so what’s the point of even trying? You don’t feel like doing anything, you don’t feel like trying again and you are tempted to give up easily. What’s next? Should you just drop everything and give up? Or should you hold on to hope? Just because you failed in your endeavors or things didn’t go your way it doesn’t mean that you should stop trying. You can’t just say that you WILL fail every time. You really can’t predict your future like that. You really can https://www.p...
Read more

7 Mind Hacks to Permanently Erase the People Pleaser Mentality

Image
You're reading 7 Mind Hacks to Permanently Erase the People Pleaser Mentality, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Being a people pleaser can become a soul draining habit. This is because, most people will be glad to walk all over you if you allow them that freedom. Like any other limiting mentality, the people pleaser mentality arises out of a negative thought pattern in your subconscious mind. Such thought patterns generally develop from negative childhood experiences. For instance, a parent who was disapproving of you, who made you feel that you are not good enough. Now, when your mind is conditioned with such limiting beliefs, you are automatically drawn to seek validation from others which lays the foundation for the people pleaser mentality. If you believe there is a people pleaser in you, then you have already taken the first step towards overcoming this hab...
Read more