Tonight I felt quite inspired to read up on some of my past articles and see if I could learn anything from them.

You see, through the process of teaching, the teacher is able to learn a tremendous amount.

In fact, sometimes, through the process we come up with ideas and concepts in the spur of the moment which can even be somewhat new to us: teachings that are important for both the reader and the writer to review and embody.

Instead of giving you a full new post for you to read today, I’d love for you to review one of my former posts. Below are the three that I read tonight. Read the title and short description, pick one that resonates with you, and enjoy:

How to Achieve Success Through High Expectations: Have you ever thought to yourself, “I would love to achieve those goals…but I don’t expect them to come true…” ?? Here is a fantastic way for setting your goals, maintaining high expectations, while also being flexible for the universe to provide as it sees best.

A Simple Formula for Being Happy Regardless of Circumstance: Seemingly terrible, terrible things happen in life. It’s an unavoidable fact. People die. Houses burn down. We lose investments. It happens! Here are some great methods for rolling with the flows and maintaining happiness through anything that comes your way.

The Blessings of Failures: This is one of my personal favorites. Throughout life most of us have somehow developed the belief that failure is a terrible thing to happen. I ask you though, is it really? Read this and you’ll learn how all the failures you’ve ever had were simply blessings in disguise.

This past weekend I had the opportunity to see an old and very dear friend of mine whom I had an extreme falling out with many months ago. At the time I felt he had done something that was literally, an atrocity. What it was though is irrelevant for this article, as this is about forgiveness…

What I will tell you though so you can understand how hard it was to come to this place is that what I believed my friend had done is something I think very few could forgive another in their entire life time. In fact, many people would probably hold the anger about it until the day they die.

Now that’s not an ego identified realization where I think I’m some kind of holy Buddha who has super powers. Not at all. On the contrary, I believe anyone can develop the power of forgiveness if only they choose to have the desire.

We have a choice in how we experience everything in life.

While I originally wrote my thoughts and feelings about this experience in my personal journal, I felt it was a vital experience to share for the benefit of others.

If this story can inspire just one person and help them receive the gift of complete forgiveness for another, then my job is complete.

Here’s the story:

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