The Power in Perspective
The days and weeks are shuffled together. Continued ambiguity and painful choices.
Ambiguity is stronger than threat
How do you find resilience, peace and calm, the basis for clarity and compassion, a way to live more fully? To do so, it’s essential to realize the chain reaction in your brain, thoughts lead to an emotion which drive an action. This recognition puts power back into our hands or should I say into our brains to choose how we want to behave.
A slight shift in our view, is the difference between staying stuck and derailed or taking control and enlisting the power of your own mind to make a difference. The key is not to view reality with rose colored glasses but to it with a fresh, clear perspective.
By seeking alternative perspectives, we take control and enlist the power of our own mind to make significant changes. When we change our perspective, we change our mind—and our actions and behaviors change in tune.
Practice Do Leadership
Do Leadership is defined as values and actions based on a combination of facts, clear vision, and vulnerability, dignity, possibility, hope, pragmatism and soul.
With that backdrop, here at The Purposeworks, we are reframing Shelter-in-Place to Spring-in- Place. Spring is a time of renewal and transformation, If we’re fortunate to be safe at home, let’s use this precious time for renewal in anyway that’s possible, whether for a half hour, half day, a weekend
Get started with spring training
The foundation of leadership starts with you. With easy to integrate steps, you can reframe your perspective and get energized to bounce back and face the tough decisions.
Take a deep breath, see where you are, take no action, just observe, no judgement allowed, take another deep breath and then proceed. It takes literally a minute. When we’re in stress we can’t breathe. When our breath is in a regular calm rhythm it allows our brain to think more clearly, to have executive functioning.
Studies show that the two most simple and most powerful ways to feel happy is to 1. do something for others, and 2. to dance. These actions release endorphins firing the neurotransmitters that create feeling of comfort, relaxation and fun.
To shake it up, enjoy this Spring-In-Place play list
Be sure to link to our Spring-In-Place playlist to get your mojo going and step out of stagnation into renewal.
Plant seeds; bring nature indoors: an environment that includes natural elements improves reaction time, attention, wellbeing and good results. Say an herb garden on your windowsill.
Shed one thing, declutter your space: Clear the field, let go of those papers you don’t need. Decluttering creates confidence because it uses your decision making skills and ripples out to sets you up to take on more ambitious projects.
Spring In Place is available until June 20.
Here are four quotes… one to end the post…the others to be possible social content:
“It's all in the mind.” George Harrison
“It’s not what you look at that matters; it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau
“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.” Dan Brown
“The right perspective makes the impossible possible.”