I want you right now to look at your life. I want you to take inventory of your life.

I want you to write down all of the people who are in your life right now. Then I want you to look at that list, and separate it into two lists: the people who drive you crazy and the people who don’t drive you crazy.

Now take your “drive you crazy” list, and I want you to write down what it is about each person on that list that drives you crazy. For example, maybe your friend Chris constantly badgers you about being late.

Now here’s what I want you to do next. I want you to start working on each of those things that you wrote down which drive you crazy. Here’s why.

Everybody who comes into your life, does so for a reason. They come into your life to teach you a lesson, and get you out of your comfort zone. They come into your life to get you out of that coma that we’re all in during our life.

These people who drive us crazy do so for a reason. They drive us crazy because they are in our lives to teach us a lesson. That is the why they frustrate us so much.

They frustrate us because we know the lesson they are in our lives to teach us is something we need to learn. Those lessons are things that are pretty tough to learn at times.

Do you ever battle with someone over and over again about the same thing? The reason you continue to have the same fight with that person is because you haven’t learned that lesson yet.

So instead of continuing to have that same argument over and over, look at your list and write down how or in what ways that person has a valid point about what they’re saying to you. Say to yourself, “Maybe the things they are trying to convey to me are things I need to learn in order to move forward in my life.”

Say the next time you’re at dinner with a friend, he tells you to put your cell phone down and pay attention to the conversation. Instead of defending yourself by saying that you just need to return one text for work, realize that you’re doing something that maybe you need to stop doing.

So the lesson from this blog that you need to learn is this: Pay attention to the lessons in your life.