Change your perspective and get unstuck

What does perspective have to do with anything?

You’ll find out that it has everything to do with everything that matters to you… So pay attention.

Even though you intellectually know that perspective matters, you, unconsciously, have the tendency to look at things the same way, every time you look at them. Result: you see them the same way.

You look at the map of reality, not reality. You saw it once, from a particular vantage point, you stored it in your mind, and now you are stuck seeing it that way.

This is detrimental to your health, mental or physical, emotional. Detrimental to your success, to your happiness. You are anything but astute… I could even call you a moron, or a machine… and you could get all upset, and it would make no difference.

Unless you can come out of your mind, expose yourself to seeing things in reality, the way they are, walk around to see things from different vantage points, you’ll never be able to change your life, your mood, your life experience. You are stuck… in the bull’s ear, as the Kurdish saying goes.

Examples: your neighborhood… you look at it from the car. You live there. The neighbors are annoying, or nice… the potholes in the road, the trees, the lawns. All familiar, all nice or boring, depending on your…