If they do, decompose them into smaller pieces until each one feels doable. If you want to redesign your product, break down this ambition into more specific actions that have a finite timeline: For example, I want to write a draft for the product roadmap over the next two years, broken up into a hierarchy of themes.īig questions are worth asking but they should be framed in a way that doesn’t feel burdensome or insurmountable.
Unpacking your big-picture thinking into a handful of specific goals will make it that much more actionable. I’ve had long, strategic, and productive dialogues with my computer by simply writing out questions and answering them in free-flow form. Through this exercise, your teammates will get a sense of ownership over the conclusions you come to together, while you’ll gain focus and clarity.Īlternately, you can have a conversation with yourself by buddying up with a text editor or journal: start asking yourself the big questions and write out your answers. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.If you’re in a management position, consider buddying with someone who reports to you: teammates who don’t often get the chance to strategize will be energized by the opportunity to do it with you. What will our lives look like if we choose to ‘open our eyes’ to a new perspective? It’s then we realise that our problem was not really the circumstances of our lives but was instead our limited perspective and view of it. Maybe we need to open our eyes to a new way of thinking and a new way of relating to the world. Sometimes we need to see life and the people who surround us with ‘new eyes’. Instead we have to choose to see things differently. Sometimes we do not need a major change in our lives. However… we don’t need to wait until something bad happens to us or someone close to us to change our perspective. It’s not until we lose something or somebody that we realise that we maybe valued the wrong things. Often it’s not until a traumatic change takes place in our lives that we really ‘value’ the normality of our everyday lives. Sometimes we need to see with ‘new eyes.’ Sometimes we need to look around us and choose to ‘see’ with a larger and more understanding perspective. Sometimes we need to take a step back and see the bigger picture. We are so focused on ourselves and what we need to do that we become blinded to the challenges that others face, which in turn means we can lack empathy and understanding. Sometimes we can become so consumed with our day to day lives, struggles and priorities that we can lose the bigger picture. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me. How we choose to ‘see’ affects so much of what we do. So much of what we do is connected to our attitude and perspective. Which means thinking less of yourself and more about them. Because love is primarily about sacrificing your selfishness for another. You choose to see more from their perspective rather than just your own. You demonstrate compassion and understanding. ( We often use the old ‘rose tinted glasses’ saying to describe seeing things from a rosy perspective when we are overly positive or especially when we are in love!) When you love someone you see them and what they do through different eyes. On the other side of the spectrum, when you love someone you should have the opposite perspective. Unfortunately, I will also communicate to others from that perspective, meaning that they too are now being influenced by my limited negative and critical perspective. Even if something good happens or the person does something good, I will often not see it, because I will only see what was wrong. Perspective is often limited to our view of the details in front of us.įor instance, if I have a critical or negative perspective about something or someone, I will tend to see everything from that perspective. Perspective often dictates our response to situations. When you are close to the details you can’t see the bigger picture. So you have to keep stepping back to take it all in and see how everything is fitting together. You can’t quite see if something is straight or big enough or if it fits together ok with the rest. When you are next to the wall, drawing or painting, you lack the ability to see the bigger picture. In the evening I was talking to my husband Matt and I was saying that because the picture is so big, as you are designing and painting it on the wall, you have to keep stepping back to get a better perspective. Yesterday I was painting a mural on a wall at a local school. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
0 kommentar(er)
