Three years ago, I asked myself a question and I haven't stopped since:
What is your life desperately trying to teach you?
I’m witnessing an unfortunate transition at work. Some of my favorite coworkers, the best of the best, simply left the job to avoid the stress and chaos of it all. I can hear the gears turning of others preparing to do the same.
Even though I had a day or two or ten that left me frustrated enough to consider leaving, I choose to ask the question that has powerfully transformed my life: What is this situation trying to teach me?
Without a single doubt in my mind, I know this question stands as the bridge between the undesirable neighborhood I moved from and the beautiful neighborhood where I now live. I spent well over a decade lamenting my neighborhood’s decline while coming up short when it came to the cost of moving. Nothing shifted until I did one thing: I closed my eyes, tilted my head to the skies, opened my mouth, and asked God, “What do you want me to learn in this place?”
For months, I opened my heart to hearing and innerstanding the answer. I found peace, beauty, and gratitude (in the neighborhood and in myself). I discovered a new level of compassion, patience, and hope for myself and others. The community I experience now stands as the reward for submitting to the lesson.
So as I continue to witness the obvious struggle in my workplace, I lean to my new innerstanding as I ask, “What is there for me to learn from this?” I choose to stop looking at the madness as something happening outside of me as I embrace its reflection of what the inner me needs to see.
Today, I challenged myself to crack my heart wide open to receive every ounce of the answer as it relates to my patience, my leadership, my future goals, and how I opt to show up in difficult situations.
What is your life desperately trying to teach you?
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