Last week I shared a thought with you asked you to nibble on it.
The common denominator in all your experiences is you.
Everything you have experienced has one thing in common ... you. The good, the bad, the mediocre, the exceptionally wonderful. The worst of the worst, the best of the best, the barely noticeable. All these experiences have one thing in common. You, you have experienced all of them, you have experienced all the experiences in your life.
What makes this an important statement, or at the very least, something worth stating? Because like I said before, it's such a liberating thought.
Accepting that you are the common denominator in all your experiences liberates you, it sets you free. It sets you free to do one thing, and one thing only ... look inward. Instead of looking at everyone else and everything else, this allows you to look at you. Look at how you responded, look at how you reacted, look at how you contributed, look at how you didn't contribute, look at all the roles you played and the all the roles you didn't play. And then ask yourself the ultimate question:
Is there anything I can learn from this and use it to improve the experience, or how I experience something similar next time?
Life throws a lot at us, and we experience a lot of things, but a lot of us aren't experienced in a lot of things. You experienced the thing but didn't take any experience out of the thing. Why? Because you haven't accepted that you are the common denominator in all your experiences.
I have intentionally avoided highlighting "bad" experiences because I don't want you thinking this just me trying to say it's your fault. Nothing is your fault, and even if it was ... the fact remains - you experienced it.
What am I saying?
Take responsibility for all the things you have done and all the things that have been done to you.
Because both those statements have one thing in common - you.
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