LOVE YOUR IRRITATIONS

LOVE YOUR IRRITATIONS

 

The things that drive you crazy are actually giant opportunities. The people who press your buttons are actually your greatest teachers. The issues that make you angry are actually your greatest gifts. Be grateful for them. Love them.

 

The people or circumstances that take you out of your power have extraordinary value. They reveal your limiting beliefs, fears and false assumptions. The celebrated psychologist Carl Jung once said: “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” How much would you pay someone who promised that they could pinpoint exactly what is holding you back from your greatest life? How much would it be worth to get intimate information and intelligence on why you are not exactly at the place where you’ve always dreamed of being? The things that irritate, annoy and anger you are entry points into your evolution and elevation as a human being. They are sign posts for what you need to work on and the fears you need to face. They are gifts of growth. You can blame the people who trigger you and make it all about them. Or you can do the wise thing and look deeply into yourself to discover the reasons for your negative reaction. Use the challenges to grow self-awareness. Because how can you overcome a fear you are not even aware of? And how can you transcend an insecurity you don’t even know you have?

 

As you begin to shed light on your personal weaknesses and take responsibility for them, you actually begin the very process shedding them. Shadows exposed to the light begin to disappear. You become stronger. More powerful. More of who you were meant to be. You begin to see the world through a different set of eyes. People really can evolve into their greatness.

 

Kahlil Gibran, once wrote: “I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am grateful to those teachers.” So the next time a co-worker sets you off or your teenager gets you going, think about them as teachers. Thank them for the gift they just gave you. Because, in truth, they really did.

 

“The people or circumstances that take you out of your power have extraordinary value; they reveal your limiting beliefs, fears and false assumptions”