Everyone is a teacher...

Someone very close to me taught me the  importance of viewing everyone in your life as a great teacher. The people in your life show up exactly the way they were meant to in order to reveal something inside of you. We are all on an incredible journey. We are all meant to thrive and connect with one another for one single purpose - to push the human race forward. 

It's easy to feel that you are alone especially in this connection age. You look around this world that we have created and it's easy to become lost and numbed out to its virtual progress. This world has become fast-paced, portable, online and offline. Apps tell us how we should feel and what we should experience. Our screens get thinner and bigger yet we still are unable to see our greatness. Drive-throughs, shopping malls and 3-car garages seem to dominate our daily lives. How is this 'progress' enhancing your life? How are you connecting in ways that deepen relationships? If you were to leave this earth tomorrow, would the 4 billion users on social media truly miss you? Yet we allocate 1/3 of our energy to feeding it. 

All of us are meant to experience more. We are meant to learn, stretch and grow into the best possible versions of ourselves. We are meant to lift others up and pour our gifts into the service of others. This task is not reserved for just missionaries it is an innate human characteristic that we have all been gifted. Some of us feel as if we have nothing left to learn. The greatest level of growth is remaining humble and open to the teachings of others. This can show up in so many brilliant ways: an irate driver teaches me empathy. A rude and upset waitress teaches me compassion. A homeless person teaches me humility. My daughters invoking self-harm teaches me the gift of life. Angela, the love of my life teaches me daily the gift of true love.  

Today, pause and reflect even for a brief moment as to the gifts that have been put in your path. What magic are they meant to reveal about you in this moment. What change do YOU need to experience in yourself in order to change the way you look at things?