Debbie Ford tells a story about a teacher who in preparation for her kindergarten class purchased a puzzle with the exact number of pieces as students in her class. The teacher wrote the name of each student on the back of each puzzle piece and placed it on each child’s desk. As she began her class she noticed from an empty desk that a child was missing. This was a problem because the lesson that she wanted to teach was that the students are all individual pieces that made up the puzzle of her class. Intuitively, she made the point that the students are all as unique as the pieces in a puzzle, and when one is missing the puzzle is incomplete. That’s the way life is; we need each other to complete this puzzle of our world, and when one of us is missing, the world is incomplete. Each one of us is a resource for the next, and each one is a teacher to the other.

Whether you are a carpenter, a doctor, a professor, a student, a homemaker, a singer, a dancer, or a garbage collector, each one of those roles is as critical as the next