Be Open to Life's Lessons
by Sandy Karn

Life is constantly giving us feedback. No matter what we do,
we will experience the results of our action. The feedback is unavoidable, however that does not mean we pay attention to it.

Significant life experiences are designed to teach us lessons about life and how to live it most fully and effectively. We attract many of these experiences because at some level we know which lessons we need to learn. If we fail to pay attention and learn the lesson, we will probably continue to attract similar experiences to repeat that lesson until we finally learn it.

If the feedback is negative, we need to resist the temptation to simply complain and blame the results on others. We need to carefully examine what we did to bring about the undesirable results. No matter what happens in our lives, we are in some way responsible. Being responsible is not the same as being wrong. It is simply accepting responsibility for being a part of the event, no matter what we did.

Now if the feedback is positive, that's great. However even in this case it is important to carefully examine the results in any significant incident. Do you know what brought about these results or did you just happen to stumble on an appropriate action? Have you identified all of the feedback including the subtle feelings and concerns that may get covered up by the desirable results?

It always helps to interpret life's feedback from a broad
viewing point rather than a narrow point of view. If you are on a street in the center of a major city surrounded by tall
buildings, your view of the city is clearly limited. Now take an elevator to the roof of the tallest building nearby. From this new viewing point you will be able to see more of the city. If you board a helicopter and rise further above the city, your view will continue to expand until eventually you will be able to see the entire city.

Your view from the sidewalk is not wrong. It is an accurate
view of that tiny part of the city. This is generally true of our viewing points. They are correct as far as they go; however they are significantly incomplete. We need to consider life's feedback from a broad viewing point to receive the entire message without rejecting parts of it out of hand.



Your goal:

To be receptive to the feedback you receive throughout your
life and to receive it from a viewing point that includes all perspectives.

The result:

You will learn from each significant experience so that you
can avoid the same errors in the future, thereby making your
life less painful and more enjoyable and rewarding.

Your assignment:

Carefully examine one or two events that occurred in your life this week. What was the feedback you received? What did you learn from it? Did you look at it from the broadest viewing point available?

Wishing You the Very Best!

Sandy Karn
Results Specialist

Sandy Karn is president of her own company, Creative Results
Sources, Inc., a consulting and training company of over 30
years. Take her Self Development Quiz!
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