Change your lens

Often we do not listen, we hear, but do not listen. That is because we are fearful of being wrong with our own views, or scared that the polarised camp we are in may well be wrong too.

Very few things are so simple as to be a case of one option or the other and that is what we are frightened of, so it is easier to shut down, close off, hide, pretend there is no other view.

Take a moment to choose to embrace the opposite view more than the one you currently believe, walk a mile in the other sides shoes, put on their lens for a day. Change the lens and see another view and look without evaluation or judgement, just observe.

Maybe, just maybe, we would be able to come together as a human race instead of being hatefully apart.

The lost opportunity

The disappointment of a lost opportunity is as big as the expectation we placed on things we can not control.

If we do the best that we can, then that is all that we can control.

Most opportunities involve others and they are outside of our control so we have to expect nothing of others, then the disappointment is a great deal less.

However, the only sure way of not losing opportunities is by choosing ourselves and creating the thing that we want. That removes the other people factor and waiting to be chosen.

Opportunities are there for us to create.