Events That Take Your Life Where it Needs to Go

• Video Transcript

  Many things happen to you in the course of a day or a week. These things didn't come from you; you didn't start them, and they are clearly outside of your sphere of influence. So where do these things come from, and why do they happen to you? Well, some of them come from other people when you are inside their area of influence, and of course, everyone is affecting everyone else all the time.

  For example, someone might make a decision that affects you, or if it's at work, the company might make a change that impacts your life. As well as with what they do, this also includes people affecting you with what they say. And some of these things give you anxiety, especially when you think about the future.

  So how should you deal with these things? Well, of course, you will deal with each thing in a different way, so the important thing is how to look at them so that you can deal with them in the right way. If you could choose by yourself all of the things that are going to happen to you, then you would always choose the easy option. And that makes sense. We all want a nice, easy life.

  But the reality is, the things that come to you are often not easy. They are challenging, difficult, and sometimes unpleasant. And there's no way around them. But these things are also the building blocks of who you are and what your life is like. And that is because of what they do to you and why.

  In short, they change you. They push you to act and react. They make you find a solution. And in doing so, they take your life where it needs to go. And your life, as with everyone's life, needs to go towards the goal of making you more than you were before. And by that, I mean making you a better version of yourself than the one you are now.

  But there are other events that happen that are extremely important that haven't been covered yet, and these have nothing to do with what you or other people have done. These are the things that come into your life seemingly from nowhere but which alter the course of your life forever. So how should we also deal with these things?

  You can't look at these things in the same way as you do the things that come from other people because they don't work to make you more than you were before in the same way. So what is their purpose? These events change you in a bigger way. Their effect is so powerful that the result is that part of you is now different and can never be how it was before.

  Now, being different from how you were before is not the same as being more than you were before, but it is better for you, and that's because of what can happen next. These events end the path that you were on and lead you onto a new path. And this new path has the potential for you to become an even better version of yourself than the last path. It will unlock a completely different set of potential events in your future, enabling you to end up in a much more different and better place than the path you were previously on.

  Often these events, that are out of your control, can seem bad or negative when they first happen, but it's important to delay judgment on them until you can see what they are leading to. Reacting to what is happening to you right now is natural and normal, but it is also short-sighted. You'll gain a lot more from it if you see it as an opportunity for your own betterment.