Articles and views on the life lessons or skills we may be learning. Opportunities to learn our lessons are repeatedly presented to us in the form of people and situations. Once a lesson is learnt these learning opportunities are no longer presented. Analyzing our life to date helps us to understand the particular lessons we may be learning.
What do you gain from life’s challenges? My life seems so tough at times.
Life’s challenges develop you as a person. They ask you to go beyond what you think is possible. President Kennedy gave his fellow Americans a challenge on the 12th September 1962.
In a relationship that does not satisfy you any more? Have you thought what it would take to return it to a healthy relationship, and are you both prepared to put that energy into it?
You might think that you have to do something unusual to result in a life changing injury. This is not always the case.
How can you say all relationships are a win:win when it might be with my manager who fired me or perhaps with a partner who left me?
Why are relationships so hard?
It is amazing what you can learn just by observing people!
At your next family or friends gathering, be a reporter and see what you discover. Typical things to look for include;
Our individual life lessons do not come to us all neatly catalogued. We must endeavour to understand what they are. Then we can modify how we handle a challenge for a better probability of learning the lesson.
Life Lessons: 3 key lessons to appreciate your team
Much has been said about Theresa May over the weekend by people more eloquent than myself. My observation is that she is having to learn some hard life lessons in a very public manner about the value of working as a team. No matter what your political views may be, Theresa needs our compassion as she learns these lessons.
In the middle of leading a large change programme, I was unexpectedly widowed and survived that period in my life through acts of kindness at work and at home. Over night my whole value base shifted to fully recognise the importance of people. This was not just for my husband, who sadly I had lost, but also for the value the other people in my life brought. These are the values I believe we need for innovative, creative leadership to be successful. They are ones Theresa May is having to learn very publicly – the value of a team working together, the different individual contributions team members can make and learning to listen to people.