Perspective
There's a Bette Midler song "From a Distance" that captures how we see things differently from a distance or with a different perspective. Most of us get caught up in seeing things from just one perspective. Our perspective. Of course we assume we know everything and all our views and opinions are total truth. Rarely do we make an effort to step outside ourselves and attempt to look at life and ourselves from a different perspective.
I remember the first time I was confronted with an opportunity to step outside myself and see things from other perspectives and it changed my life for ever, In the late 80"s I attended a two week Tony Robbins seminar in Maui. I attended to change my life. Tony Robbins introduced us to a group of speakers who had to deal with some serious challenges in life. They included one man who was a paraplegic, another who was a prisoner of the Viet Cong, another woman who was deaf and became a comedian and another who suffered multiple life threatening accidents and was burnt over 90% of his body. All of them were living successful meaningful lives and were role models of possibility.
For the first time I saw my life's challenges from their perspective and it shifted me. It put my challenges into perspective and it gave me a tool that I would use many times in the future to always put the obstacles and problems in my life into perspective.
Today I use the metaphor from "A Distance" to give myself a new point of view and perspective to view my problems. It helps to minimize my challenges and gives me strength to move forward.
So I suggest you find ways to see yourself and your problems from different perspectives and see how that can help you....
-- John Duffy
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