Life is a Teacher

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Motivation Tip #70
Life is a Teacher

Before this day ends I guarantee life will give you the opportunity to learn something about yourself.

A comment I often hear from a wide variety of people is, “if I just learn one thing from this person, seminar or life experience it will be worth while.

Life is an interesting and fascinating series of events, processes and growth opportunities. It is what happens to us as we plan the outcomes of our life existence. Life is truly a classroom. In a sense class begins the day we are born and ends the day we pass from this world to the next. There are no vacations, recesses and you never graduate.

There is no final exam and there is no pass or fail. You can however repeat a grade again and again until you learn the necessary skills or attitudes that the teachers in this class are trying to help you learn.

Each of us is traveling through our very unique lives toward a variety of circumstances, events, people, and outcomes. We are bringing these outcomes and people into our lives both unconsciously and consciously.

Some people are good students and learn the necessary lessons the first time they appear while others are stuck in the same old patterns, life dramas and situations because they fail to bring the learning back to themselves.

You can’t quit school and you must complete each assignment before you get to move on to the next one. There are however a number of pop quizzes. Some people refuse to see the learning as theirs. They continuously point their fingers outward toward the other person or event and blame, resent or feel a number of negative emotions such as guilt, jealousy or anger.

Life is a neutral experience. It doesn’t care whether you are poor or wealthy, happy or unhappy, educated or ignorant, good looking or ugly, afraid or courageous, from Boston or Atlanta, are a Catholic or Jewish, single or married working or retired. It doesn’t have opinions. It doesn’t judge. It just is.

Class is not about what comes into your life, but how you handle it that matters. Success comes to many people. Some handle it well while others do not. Adversity comes to all of us sooner or later. Some people give up while others use the struggle to get better, wiser or stronger. Everyone has problems whether in their career, relationships, businesses or with children, customers or spouses.

The opportunity for personal growth or learning, can be found in each of life’s experiences or teachers. The key to success is to learn to bring all of the learning back to yourself and not to point your finger or blame others or life, for your teachers. You and I don’t get to choose the curriculum in our lives or the lives of others, and we certainly don’t get to choose how other people should learn their lessons.
Everyone is on their unique path through life into their future.

One way to know if you have not yet learned one of life's particular lessons is to observe that which is still in your life. For example if, you are having a relationship problem there is most likely a relationship lesson that you have not yet learned .

If you struggle with a financial lesson, then you have not yet learned a lesson in connection with this issue.

The opening line in the all time best selling book by Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled states, “Life is difficult.” Scott goes on to explain that life is only difficult for people who expect life to be easy