How to Win at Everything: The Rules of Healthy Competition

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Competitive Confessions
Increase Your Confidence Level
Compete Only When It Counts
Want the Win
Learn the Right Way to Lose
Play Fair
Accept Applause
Coping with an Overly Competitive Friend

Compete Only When It Counts

Don't get sidetracked by envy: Make sure the things you're competing for are the things that you value, says Betsy Cohen, author of The Snow White Syndrome: All About Envy (MacMillan, 1987). If you covet your friend's new Mini Cooper, pause before you race to the nearest dealership, and consider: Is it the car you desire, or do you wish you felt as happy and self-satisfied as she does? "Often it's the latter," says Cohen. "Ask yourself: What would make me feel that way? It may be something entirely different from what you've been envying."

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