I'm about to share something with you that completely changed my life and continues to change my life.

And that is this.

People can only meet you where they are, not where you want them to be, not where you think

they should be, but where they actually are mentally and emotionally.

All of us, every single human being is walking around with a certain level of awareness, a certain level of consciousness.

So this is determined by our conditioning.

It's determined by our past experiences, both good and bad.

It's determined by our environment.

Every single one of us is the sum total of our past experiences and that conditioning.

And that's what really determines where we are in our evolution, in our emotional maturity.

And we are always given the opportunity to become more mature

or to raise our level of self-awareness if we want to.

But the fact remains that everyone you deal with is in their own level of

mental, emotional, psychological development. So when you get so frustrated with wanting someone to

treat you differently or to be differently or to show up differently.

What you have to realize is that people are often doing the best that they can with the

tools that they have and it's not about you, just like it's not about me.

And that's not to say it may not be good enough.

Those tools may not be good enough.

But that's what it is.

That's literally what's going on.

And so the more we try to make someone be someone who they're not,

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