What Life Is Trying to Teach You in Your Daily Experiences
Six Steps for Discovering the Hidden Messages in Your Life.
Bob Olson is the host of Afterlife TV, author of Answers About The Afterlife and The Magic Mala, and founder of BestPsychicDirectory.com. You’re reading his articles on Bob Olson Connect.
In the 1990s, I wrote an article about a woman from my neighborhood who had been killed in a hit-and-run accident, which was published in the local newspaper. When I wrote the story about my relationship with the woman, a powerful insight into everyday social interactions came through in my writing. It seemed like a stroke of luck that I learned a lesson about life by writing the story.
Over time, I wrote dozens of stories about my real-life experiences that taught me insights about life. I have shared many of these stories with you here on Bob Olson Connect. I discovered that the wisdom I gained from these stories wasn’t a stroke of luck after all; gaining insight became an expected result of the process I underwent in writing about my experiences.
Moreover, while readers of these stories have reflected that they are entertaining, they offer something much more valuable than mere entertainment. These stories are evidence that lessons are being taught in our everyday experiences.
I’ve always loved telling my friends and family stories about my life's engaging, humorous, mysterious, and sometimes thrilling experiences. It was entertaining for them to hear them and fun for me to observe their reactions. But it wasn’t until I began writing about these stories that the lessons became apparent. As the years and decades passed, I returned to the stories I’d written. I rewrote them because I was growing as a writer and storyteller. With each rewrite, I reveled in the wisdom these stories revealed to me.
I believe we are guided by a higher intelligence, which constantly tries to direct us toward our highest path. In this way, many of the events that happen in our lives hold meaningful messages. These messages might come from advice someone gives us, a repeated pattern the experience shows us, or something we observe. Regardless of how they show up, these guiding messages are recognizable because we are meant to gain the wisdom they offer.
You, too, have experiences that can teach you lessons for growth and guidance. I’m writing this to help you see how the process works. If you’re like me, writing about your experiences can help you identify the lessons in your daily life. You need not be a professional writer. The simple act of journaling the details of your life's events should be enough to help bring forth the lessons.
While I’ve written dozens of stories, I have a new book coming out this summer that shares twenty-three of my favorites. These stories have been known to engage minds, warm hearts, and make people feel better about humanity. More importantly, however, these stories are examples of the transformative insights hidden below the surface of our experiences.
The stories I have shared with you on Bob Olson Connect have taught, through example, how our daily life experiences hold messages, guidance, and insight for us. Now, it is your turn to discover the messages, guidance, and insight in your own experiences. You can do this in six simple steps, which I have taken from my new book, Insight From Hindsight: Stories That Reveal What Life Is Trying To Teach You.