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I’ve had a life coach tell me and read in several books that “when you change the way look at things, the way things look starts to change.” While I understood this theoretically, I have really struggled with it. Having gone through a somewhat tough time lately, I felt the other day as if my whole life has gone in circles, because I’m back to where I was right when I graduated from undergrad. I have little money, I could end up at my parents house, and it’s another recession. So, I thought I’ve really just gone in circles for 10 years. Then my roommate gave me a very brilliant insight. He said, that’s only because you are looking at it from the top and from the top it appears to be circles. Look at it from the side, and you’ll see how you’ve spiraled upwards.
As you’ll see in the two pictures above they both represent a very similar structure. But if you are at the bottom of the staircase and look from side to side, you will see that around the staircase is what is probably a marvelous construction job. This is like the constructs of our life. Even when we feel we are going in circles, the world around is being influenced in a wonderful way, and we are actually accomplishing more than we give ourselves credit for. When you start shift perspectives, things start to look quite a bit different.
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This is a wonderful post! I really love the idea of shifting perspectives. It’s certainly not easy to do, but it is SO worth it when we can shift toward a more positive viewpoint.
This such a great post. went through all your posts and they very inspiring. Hope you succeed what you have set out to do!
[...] 4. Measure progress against where you were before, not where you want to be. I don’t remember who told me this, but it was a pretty great advice. When you measure the distance to your goal, it might feel like it’s really far. When you measure how far you’ve actually come, you’ll be blown away. You’ll realize you’re already more than half way there. It just required you to shift your perspective. [...]