Whatever annoys you most in other people usually tells you what you care about.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Irritation marks the boundary of something you value. You are not annoyed by what you have no stake in, so the thing that gets under your skin is where one of your rules has been stepped on. Dishonesty, laziness, showing off, cruelty, whichever one spikes for you is pointing at a commitment you may never have put into words.

Follow one irritation back to the rule this week and ask what it says about what you want to be like. Then check whether you are holding to it yourself, because the rules we are strictest about in other people are often the ones we have been sliding on quietly.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What irritates you in others that you secretly hold sacred?

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