How to Get Over Feeling Envious of Other People’s Money and Success
It happens to most of us at some time or another. A neighbor will buy something extravagant, like a gorgeous new car, and you look at your older car in the driveway and feel some envy. A relative will get a great job and make more money in a year than you ever have. You’ll overhear talk of that person’s salary, think about your own salary, and feel some envy. You’ll visit an old friend who has a huge, nice house with plenty of room for their family and some really beautiful decorations. You’ll go back to your own small home or apartment, look around, feel like it’s a dump, and feel some envy. Envy. It’s an emotion that we all feel at some point. It’s also a really dangerous emotion when we’re trying to build a strong financial life. After all, envy encourages us to make some pretty poor decisions. Envy causes us to buy things to “keep up with the Joneses.” Envy causes us to get in way over our head with a car loan or a mortgage or a furniture loan. Envy causes us t