The Green Eyed Monster
When a person feels a third party resource has been acquired by a colleague… Two emotions have the possibility of surfacing. One emotion, the more favorable emotion, is feeling happiness for someone else. Happiness that we have witness a colleague obtain a resource that they needed to continue down their path of success. Happiness based on our knowledge of how good an accomplishment feels and our true desire for our colleague to experience joy. People who are able to feel happy for other people are at terms with their own capabilities. They do not play the blame game. They do not attribute their shortcomings on another persons good fortune. They know that their actions will yield their desired results if they stay proactive. They know that if we call ourselves professionals, we do not need others to fail in order to succeed. These are fully mature people of character. The opposite of feeling happy for someone else is feeling jealous about their accomplishments. Jealousy i...