 Good morning, everyone. Today, I'm sharing on five ways to handle career envy. You may think envy is a bad word. Yes, it's a bad word and it happens in career as well. So it is what it is. How do you handle it if it happens to you or if you know someone that it may happen to? So can someone please explain to this young lad what career envy means? Just quickly unmute your mic in layman terms. They haven't graduated. They will envy him. Look at his shirt. What else career envy? What does it mean to you when you just hear the word career envy? Well, the first career envy. Okay, so that's basically what it is. You are envy because of your career as the term implies. And how bad business review says last year about 75% of people said they actually went through career envy. And you can imagine it may increase this year with the pandemic. So there's a need to address it. So let's get to it. First of all, control. You may not be able to control the emotions you feel like when you are envious of someone. However, you can control how you react. So it is advised that even when the envy does happen, you should try to quickly come out of it. For example, your colleague is going to get promoted and you are not and you are even feeling bad about it. That we are supposed to be happy for your colleague and they are shameful and you know, you should just come out of it because it happens. Okay, so why envy comes? Anticipate it, accept it and then try to snap out of it the best way you can. Secondly, shift from comparison to curiosity. Envy usually is as a result of comparing what this person has that you don't have. Why is this person's career booming or going faster than mine? So you have to prepare your mind to not just stay at the comparison level but actually ask the person. Be curious. What did you do? What have you done? What has your journey been like? How come your career path is moving faster than mine and learn from the person rather than remain at the envy stage? Okay, so that's shifting from comparison to curiosity. It doesn't have to be in the formal setting all the time. It can even be in the informal setting. Okay, so we are going to five just to recap. Can someone remind me what the first way of handling career envy is? Control your emotions. Control your reactions to the emotions. Thank you. Secondly, shift from comparison to curiosity. Thank you. Third way of handling envy in career is moving towards the person you believe you are envying. You may think you want this person's position. For example, you are a general manager. Of course, you are inspiring to be a manager someday. But even at that level that you are, it seems as if your colleague is getting more attention. Move closer to the colleague. You may even find that I may just be the way the person is doing their job that you actually envy. Not that position or not the person. And then you realize that your own contribution is as important. But if you just stay far away, you may not be able to realize that. A fourth way to handle career envy is to view your job or your career or your career as pockets of investments. What do I mean? Don't central your life around your job. Get other things that excite you. Get them doing. For example, you may have eight to five jobs and still blog about something you have interesting photography. You may even like traveling. Guess what? Someone might see your post and call you to come and present somewhere else and then you get fulfillment from that as well. So always try to view your job as a career as pockets of investments and not what your life is about. It will help you in handling career envy. Finally, and I believe is the most important to me, life takes us through different parts. The earlier we accept it, the better for us it will help us to manage short career envies. You can see this man is training, right? And then the next slide you are going to see a mother also trying to teach her child. Guess what? Both of them are doing what they are teaching. They are transferring knowledge. One is in the boardroom. One is in work from home or in the house or in the classroom at different levels, but they are both adding value. So if you can decide and remind yourself that life takes us through different parts does not make me less successful than the next person to help us in managing any career envy. Alright, so let's recap what are the last three that I just mentioned. Can I remember? Life parts. Yes, life takes us through different parts. Thank you. View your career as pockets of investment. Thank you. And the last one was move closer to the person you similarly are envious of. So I want to quickly ask, do you think career envy is a good thing or a bad thing? Just on mutual mind, good, bad or chat? Bad. Okay. Yeah, it depends on the scenario. Depends on the scenario. It depends. Okay. Diplomatic answer, but I agree with you. It depends because career envy can actually go really bad if it's not handled properly, which is what's inspiring to actually talk about it because it happens. So the best thing you can do is make it work for you, learn from the person you are similarly envious of and get better at yourself. Thank you very much for your time. My name is Tewa Adetoye. You can send me an email for us to further this discussion. I got my images from Splash, Google and Pexels. I will take questions and comments now. Thank you.