Success Doesn’t Come Easy
Monday, December 1st, 2008I had a young person ask me the other day how do you handle people who resent you when you achieve a certain amount of success. Well unfortunately it is a fact there are such people.
As you climb the ladder of success and I hesitate to use the word “climb’ because it sounds so easy doesn’t it? When in all actuality, for one to succeed at anything in this life it literally takes blood, sweat and lots of tears.You will encounter many people that will resent your well deserved rewards and kudos. This is where I suppose the tears some times come in. Many may even be close friends and oh yes, you can count on even family, definitely family.
I think we have all seen movies to this scenario, jealous siblings not willing to walk the path of hard work and determined goals, but instead always looking for the parental handouts and the easy road in life.Then to discover when they’re middle age they have wasted an entire lifetime pursuing pointless ventures to satisfy selfish desires. And there you are sitting pretty now with success at your door because you set out on your own efforts to achieve your own dreams by your hard work.
Things you can expect to encounter from these type of people are usually all negative either in the form of gossip (and this includes taking what you have said out of context, twisting of your words or just plain lying that you said something in the first place) asking you for money, nasty emails to you (usually telling you what is wrong with you and giving you their worthless advice) or criticizing your work, ruthless phone calls. Thank God for email blocking and lawyers who handle cyber-harrassing suits and harrassment suits (save all emails btw)
The best way to handle most of this negativity is to just blow them off. After you have blocked the necessary email that is…LOL! There have been this type of jealous people since time began. I have even had Christian brothers and sisters or some that call themselves such, quote the Word of God or at least try to and then try to admonish me. Now this is a good one. You may have some one of your faith or a peers in your line of talent come at you in the same way.
It all boils down to the “haves’ and the “have nots”. And nothing comes easy in this world even those that are born with a silver spoon in their mouths give up much that the average person takes for granted such as a private life.
Let them rant and rave all they want. The best thing to do is to ignore them. They’re like the serial killer that longs for the public dispute for the thrill of attention. Jealousy is truly a green eyed monster that eats at the soul of it’s master.
The Word of God tells us to pray for those who are our enemies to ask for God’s blessings upon them. So much wisdom in this, if they receive blessings then they will not be so resentful of your’s.
Success is only the wisdom you learn and live after all.
later gaters…