Life is messy, but you already knew that. If you have kids (or work with kids) you live it every single day. The good news is that messes are able to be cleaned up. Some messes require more of a cleanup than others. No matter what though, no mess is so great it cannot be cleaned up.
No matter what your messes are in life, you clean them up. But is that where you stop? Why not turn your mess into a message? It's amazing what you learn when life gets messy. It's also amazing how many of us encounter the same messes in life. When we don't turn our mess into a message we miss a great opportunity not only to reflect upon our own struggles, we miss the chance to bring what we learned from the experience and share it with other so that they can grow with us. Remember, some messes are harder than others to clean up. Much of that depends on your personal preference. Think about your house. You have chores that you despise and things that you really don't mind doing. What fits in each of those categories is different for each one of us. Some of us like to vacuum, some don't. No matter what it is, the messes that you handle well can and should be turned into messages that will help and inspire the rest of us. The greatest teaching and learning tool that we have is our interactions with each other. In a world where you need to be a "learn it all" and not a "know it all" we have to create messages from our messes. What messes do you currently have or have recently cleaned up that need to become messages? Once you've figured that part out, share them and do it face to face where possible.
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