Want to improve your life? No problem — just change your perspective!

The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

~ Oprah Winfrey

You have heard this all before, I’m sure, but it bears reminding ourselves from time to time that if we were just to change our perspective on a situation, we would change our actions and our attitude. Perspective and perception are closely related and both resemble what we believe is the “truth”. For example, if you think that toys corrupt children’s minds, then from your perspective a toy shop is an evil place.

If you are not feeling good about something, stop and ask yourself, “Is there possibly another way to look at this?” Without a doubt, there will be.

Consider the story of Viktor Frankl who lost his entire family during the Holocaust. He knew that he had been spared simply because the Nazis needed his experience and knowledge in the concentration camp as a doctor. One would expect Dr. Frankl to be bitter and angry, especially when a manuscript he had been writing was found by the guards, leading to harsh punishment. They stripped him naked, burned his only copy of the manuscript, and then demanded he give them the only thing left on his body — a thin gold wedding band — the only vestige left of his connection to the life he had known before. Despite all that had happened to him, Frankl decided he still had the freedom to decide how he would respond. It was the one thing the Nazis could not take away from him — his freedom to choose. He said to himself that no matter what they did to him, they couldn’t make him live in hatred. He refused to live in hatred.

Be careful not to confuse the word “truth” with the word “fact”. While truth is subjective, facts can usually be proven. There are no “alternative facts”, as politicians have recently tried to argue. Your truth and my truth are both equally valid, but facts exist outside of us and are, well, “factual.”

In order for us to change our lives for the better, we must build a larger belief in our own deserving. We are co-creators with life and not a victim of circumstances. Help yourself build this believing by making a decision right here and right now to set down the “stuff” in your life that is not useful and might be holding you back. Feeling more deserving will open you up to the magnetic field that invokes the law of attraction. You will begin noticing that all kinds of things will come to you simply because of your change in perspective. There is no way that you can attract what you want if you don’t believe that you deserve it!

In order to feel more deserving, you may have some work to do on yourself. Some of that work includes:

Forgiving ourselves and others
Cultivating compassion
Focusing on gratitude
Befriending our fears
Increasing our generosity
Cultivating the “voice for truth” that lies within
Creating a support system
Being persistent
Accepting that “failure” is only feedback

As you can see, it’s a process, and this is where Coaching comes in. No one should tackle all of this on their own.

It’s a little like “tough love”.

A coach can help you change your perspective and keep you focused on your goals. A good coach will ask you the right questions and encourage you when you want to give up. A coach will help you “navigate the gap” between where you are today and where you want to be in a year, 2 years, or 3 years into the future. Sure, maybe you can accomplish all this on your own, but how long will it take? A coach will shorten the time and help ensure the outcomes you want.

For anyone ready to invest in themselves to create a “new you, I have a very special gift. For the first 5 people to respond to this offer, I will give you 45 minutes of my time — at no charge — to take you to the next step on your journey. I will tune in to your specific dreams, help you identify any current road blocks, and come up with steps you can take today, from exactly where you are right now. Please complete the response form below, and I will contact you to schedule your session.