There's a lesson. And if you just kill the messenger, if you just try to drink your way out of the pain, if you just try to watch TV until you fall asleep, if you just try to ignore the message that's being set deeply inside to you, you're just going to wait until the next time you get to learn that lesson.

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Are you ready to become an ignited hero? The topic I wanted to cover today is serendipity.

I talked about a little bit yesterday.

I have my own views on spirituality, my own way of looking at the world and the

universe, et cetera. They are not incredibly religious in nature. I would say a decade ago or so,

maybe that my spiritual connection was actually much weaker. It's much stronger now. But I don't,

I don't mind, maybe I care. I don't mind if you look at the concept

of serendipity as fate or God or random chance or statistical probability or the universe

having your back. So just to kind of take it off the top, the idea for me of serendipity is

you find yourself

in life, meeting a person, learning something, being in a place, doing a task that unexpectedly

serves a purpose. You had just thought about, wrote down, talked to somebody about, mentioned,

believed, learned you need internally. And so it's as if luck, fate, chance, the universe, statistics, whatever you want

to call it, just shows up in your life exactly at the time that you need it, hence serendipity.

Sometimes when the lessons show up for the people who are

already around you, you have a much harder time. I have a much harder time understanding, learning,

and hearing the lesson. Like your spouse, your friend, your mom, your dad, your brother can say

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