“And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor” Ecc 4:4

After I took the strengthfinder 2.0 test, I was reading the results posted previously.. Something rubbed me the wrong way. My number 1 strength was “Achiever.” Achieving??? Surely I have a greater strength than achieving. It was hard for me to express why i didn’t like that adjective attached to my name until I read this verse.

“And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor” Ecc 4:4

“Envy of his neighbor” jumped out at me.

I have always tried to out perform my friends. Whether it was having a cooler toy or skiing faster or killing a bigger deer. Any race I was in I anted to win. It (achievement) define me.  I’m not sure what the cure is but at least i have identified the problem.

Trying to out do your friends is impossible. Be content. That is my goal.

I thought about writing how achievement isn’t healthy when it comes to dating relationships.  Many labor to get a girl out of envy of a neighbor.  That’s a topic for another blog post.

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