Daily Tune-Up by Yehuda Berg

Everything you see in others is a reflection of your own ego. When you see something in someone else that especially bothers you, what you're really seeing is your own hidden faults being reflected back at you.

What's more, the reason you see it when you do is because it's the ideal time to bring the ego down!

Today, when someone gets under your skin, know you're being given a key.

Your work is to find the grain of truth in what you see.

Knocking down someone else makes us feel better about ourselves. Hearing about someone else's problems makes us feel better about our own situations.

The problem is, gossip hurts us, not the person being spoken about.

Today, resist the desire to trash talk and speak bad about others! When someone is going on and on about someone, terminate the conversation or change the subject. This will reveal tremendous Light, which will truly help with your problems.

We all go through dark moments when we wish we had someone else's life.

The way to shed light on these difficult moments is to accept yourself and your life fully as it is; this is where your soul has placed you.

Today, understand that everything you are is part of a perfect plan. The life you have is exactly the life you need.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic. Whatever enters into your life is something you have to fully own.

Even if an event in your life doesn't make sense in the context of this life experience, you have to accept that it's a lesson you need to learn from. It may even be a lesson held over from a previous incarnation.

It is not the amount of time but the quality of the interaction that most influences your connection to people.

Today, when you are with your family, friends or colleagues, be with them totally. Don't get lost in tasks and duties, or the phone.

When you close off to people, you close off to the reason for being alive.

Today, open up. Let people in. Deal with the conversations you've been avoiding. See the best in people.

You, like the rest of us, have difficulties facing you most days of your life. And focusing on these troubles and worries is normal.

Today, don't be normal. Focus on the good things you have in your life, the air in your lungs, the clothes on your back, the opportunity to live.

Fight for this focus!

You are here to make mistakes; that's an inescapable part of your destiny.

There are two roads you can take: admit your mistake and change, or hide the truth from yourself and blame others.

Today, allow yourself to uncover your imperfections. Give yourself permission to be vulnerable. This is what leads to change.