Envy & Inspiration Are The SAME Emotion

Have you ever noticed how someone you look up to can inspire you, but also intimidate you?

It’s as if their success is threatening to you. Even though you admire them.

Or how you can become envious of that person you look up to… you think, “must be nice.”

It’s because admiration and envy are the very same energy, but being experienced through 2 different vantage points.

The perspective of admiration looks at that inspiring person and feels:

• this is incredible

• this is possible

• if they can do it, so can I

• seeing them do it motivates me to do it

Whereas the perspective of envy feels:

• they might be better than me

• what if I’m not capable

• they have something I don’t have

• maybe that’s not meant for me

You see? You’re looking at the same person who holds the level of success that YOU want to hold, but the way you feel towards it is entirely dependent on how you’re looking at it…

Admiration and inspiration is the energy of abundance and potential.

Envy and intimidation is the energy of lack and insecurity.

Let me share a story real quick that embodies this perfectly…

I was at a Tash Sultana concert a few years ago, and she was absolutely ROCKING the stage.

A true one-man show. Looping, playing all the instruments, singing beautifully…

And there I was, in the crowd, cheering her on.

I suddenly was overcome with this energy of feeling inferior…

I thought, “wow, she’s really something. I could never amount to something like that… I’m not good enough.”

And then suddenly, something clicked in me.

I suddenly became deeply inspired and empowered. My thinking shifted.

I started thinking, “this is what’s possible! Look what humans can achieve! If she can do it, so could I! We are incredible!”

That inferiority transformed into motivation.

So when you see someone that has something you wish YOU could have…

I want you to realize that them having it is a sign that it’s possible for YOU to have it.

Not a sign that you’re not good enough to have it.

The next time you despise someone’s success, realize that it’s more about you than it is about them…

Their light is shining on the places in yourself that feel inadequate and insecure.

But instead, shift that perspective just the littlest bit, and what their light shines on is the parts of yourself that have the power to create that exact same reality for YOU.