The GSS – the Great Singapore Sale is upon us again. And I am not talking about the Singapore stock market here.
It’s an opportune time to remind ourselves of that one emotion that is the cause of the lack of wealth in the lives of many. It is envy.
I have briefly written about envy here, and here, before.
For me, envy is such a huge lever—negative in this case—to one’s happiness and subsequently to wealth (mind you, not only the monetary wealth!) that I want to share a few more thoughts on this malicious emotion.
Have you ever asked yourself what’s goes on under the hood of those people that you envy so much?
Would you still really want to be like them, once you knew how hard they worked to achieve what they are projecting to the outside world, or how unhappy they are? Or how their ......