As a hypnotherapist & business success coach I’ve worked with clients who have suffered from the "they're doing better than me" syndrome.
That's when they focus on other people's business success and feel jealous and bad that they are not as successful.
I remember learning in high school a very valuable lesson about keeping my eye on my own ball. I was in the play Damn Yankees. I was fighting with a friend of mine at the time who was also in the play. I noticed he missed his cue for his part. I was so focused on him and what he had just done that I started looking for him to tell him (in a snotty tone of course) that he had missed his cue. In the process of looking for him guess what happened… I missed my cue! That was an eye opener. I miss out on my own experience focusing on his.
What I tell my clients is that everyone has different power peaks in their life and in their business. Everyone has different strength and challenges. When you glimpse at someone else's success and compare yourself to them you are seeing it out of context. What you are not seeing is their hard work, their struggles and the things that stress them out - just the success.
Our attention is energy and whatever we put positive attention on thrives. So keep your eye on your own ball.
They say that time is money, so spend your time focusing on YOUR success and YOUR learning curves and you will have more success in your business!
The question to ask yourself is where are you missing your cue focusing on other people’s success instead of yours - and adjust accordingly :)
In Endless Possibility,
-Jenn August C.H.
Jenn August helps business women remove the blocks so their business rocks(tm). Join her on a free teleclass called “How To Win The Inner & OuterGame of Business Success for Women” on November 18th for moreinformation go tohttp://www.beyond-business-for-women.com/eventDetail.asp?recordID=200