How to Recognize the Teachers in Your Life: The Other Person Is You
Ever since I discovered Yogi Tea and its daily bits of wisdom that come in different flavors, I’ve been hooked. I love reading those quotes. Sometimes they make sense right away, and sometimes it takes me a while to fully get it, but they always come through. There is always a point where I go: “Aha! That’s what it meant!”. I just had one of those aha moments and it’s already having a deep impact on my personal development journey, so I wanted to share it with you.
The quote is:
“Recognize that the other person is you”.
I know, intense. And it kind of made sense the first time I read it but not as much as it does after reflecting on it for a while.
For a week now, I’ve been working on my business model canvas, it’s a very helpful tool for business creators to help them understand what they want their business to be, what their value proposition is, who their clients are, what their resources are, and what they need to do to grow their business... Working on my business model canvas has propelled me further than I ever went into introspection and transformation mode.
One of the exercises I did while working on my business model canvas, was to write a profile for three ideal clients. I took inspiration from people around me and transformed their stories (or the perception I have of what their stories are), and used them as a foundation to create those three fictional ideal clients. This exercise helped me understand better who I wanted to serve with my business and how.
But what happened when I was done with this exercise, is that I realized that the three profiles I created were not my friends, they were me.
All of these profiles were different parts of me that I am currently healing and nurturing with the creation of my business.
The other person is me. The people I want to help are me. I have stepped onto the path of personal development and business creation to heal myself, heal my past, probably heal some generational trauma too, and assist others in their own healing journey by sharing my experience. By helping others, I am helping myself, and vice-versa. Isn’t it beautiful? It certainly feels full circle to me!
I believe that personal development and the transformation of individuals lead to the transformation of society.
And I believe that because my mission is so deeply rooted in me, I will succeed. I will be a successful entrepreneur, and I will have the impact I want to have on the world.
How can you see this pattern unfold in your own life? Who are you working with, playing with, singing with (why not) that is actually a perfect reflection of you and your own wounds? What can they teach you about yourself and the world? How can you build more compassion for others based on the idea that the other person is you?
Another quote from Yogi Tea is “Every neighbor can be a teacher”. A neighbor can be anyone, it can be your mom, your dog, your literal neighbor, or the person sleeping next to you in bed.
The people around us are our teachers, they are the people through whom we work out our trauma and heal our wounds.
The other person is you. Next time someone triggers you, ask yourself, what does it say about me? What is it reflecting to me about myself? What’s the wound I need to heal here?
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