Robin Sharma Articles

Big Idea: your most challenging relationship carries with it the seeds of your greatest growth. The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you. Get that and you can step into your NLG: Next Level of Greatness.

What I'm suggesting to you is that- if you choose to do so- you can leverage your hardest relationship into your greatest success. The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier and more successful. Unbelievable isn't it? The best in business and in life use that aggravating relationship (the one that presses all their buttons and makes them want to scream) to discover what's keeping them small. They ask themselves what are the beliefs that they are running that allow them to get so provoked by this person. They have the outright bravery to go deep and see the fears that that person triggers versus making it all about the other person being wrong/incompetent/ignorant or whatever other labels we generally use to avoid looking in the mirror and assuming personal responsibility. And the great ones use what they learn to build greater self-awareness, authentic power and personal understanding.

Please remember that as you become a more extraordinary human being, every element of your outer world must change accordingly. Just has to. So the more remarkable you become, the more remarkable will be the professional and personal life you'll create. Inner improvements create outer ones.

 No two people see the world in precisely the same way. How could we, as each of us have had different experiences on the journey through our days? What a word or an event means to you might mean something totally different to me. What a gorgeous opportunity, then, is the intersection of two people who view the world differently. We can embrace that connection to learn, grow and elevate the very people we are. And the growth and inner expansion that we experience from that one challenging relationship will change the way we relate in every other relationship. Improve the way you show up in one relationship and you'll improve the way you show up in every other relationship (from your teammates and customers at work to the people you love at home). Exciting no?

 Not only that - but it will change who we are. We will never be the same as we stretch and expand from what we discover in that difficult interaction. We will be stronger/wiser/bigger/better. And that'll revolutionize everything. Forever.