Yesterday, I had the incredible opportunity to be on a Zoom call with Jack Canfield. There were around 2,000 people on the call, so it wasn’t exactly an intimate coffee chat 😂, but he spoke for more than an hour, and considering that he is technically retired and came out of retirement to speak to this community, it felt really special to be there. There were several things Jack said that stayed with me, but one actually moved me to tears. He briefly talked about a period in his own life when he was going through a divorce. His business was worth around $8 million at the time, and as he told the story, his wife essentially received everything else while he kept the business—meaning he basically got to keep his job and had to rebuild the rest of his life. What struck me was this: even someone incredibly successful, someone who had already learned so much about mindset, success, and personal development, still went through a season where life absolutely knocked him around. He talked about people who have really been through it—people who seem to have been handed lesson after lesson after lesson—and suggested that perhaps those experiences are part of what prepares us to eventually help other people. His framing was spiritual: that somewhere along the way, we essentially signed up for this. That our soul chose certain lessons because we were going to become mentors, teachers, guides, or examples for someone else. Whether you interpret that literally or metaphorically, the question he gave us was incredibly powerful: “What am I supposed to be learning from this?” Not, Why is this happening to me? Not, When is this finally going to be over? But: What is this teaching me? It immediately reminded me of a book I already own, If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules by Chérie Carter-Scott. Jack Canfield actually wrote the foreword. The first four rules are: 1. You will be presented with lessons. 2. There are no mistakes, only lessons. 3. A lesson is repeated until learned. 4. Learning does not end.