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In the Transformational Thinking Skills and Behaviours learning series, you learn simple ways of achieving new perspectives and their associated behaviours which offer unlimited opportunities.
See how perception shift works in jokes:
A Senior Moment
A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and...," pausing to take another drink of beer.
The senior took advantage of the break in the student's speech and said, "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young . . . . .. so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little idiot, what are you doing for the next generation?"
Humour
and puzzles illustrate fun ways of practising changes of perspective.
Did you ever notice that humour is funny because the last line or
the last picture or the last thought suddenly swings you around to
seeing the story differently? So you go through a perception shift
or a mindset shift without even realising it.
Worries about mad cow disease
There were these two cows, chatting next to the fence.
The first cow said, "I tell you, this mad-cow-disease is really pretty scary. They say it is spreading fast; I heard it hit some cows down on the Johnson Farm."
The other cow replies, "I ain't worried, it don't affect us ducks."
Did you notice how your perception of what is going on is turned around in the last sentence? This is a mind shift. It's seeing things a different way. Being able to do this any time is beyond price. Immeasurable.
So now...
What if:
Your assumptions about your business competitors are wrong and you
need a mind shift?
Or what if
The way you and your colleagues do your work could be radically improved
simply by looking at it another way?
Or what if
Some of the relationships you are in (in business and at home) are
in trouble but you can't or won't see it?
Or what if
Something has been worrying you desperately and it is in fact possible
to feel at peace about it?
Or what if
There is conflict at work or at home which could be quite easily solved
if you knew how?
By recognising and getting out of old thinking habits, assumptions, anger, prejudice, history, denial and other mental burdens, you open up yourself to huge possibilities that have been totally blocked. It’s just a fact - if you free your thought, you free your life.
Check out this puzzle figure:
Do you see black arrows or white arrows or both?
This also applies to life. It's common that people get stuck in how they see a situation or a problem when the truth is that there are many other equally valid ways of seeing it.
It’s pretty much a certainty that you personally as well as work colleagues and family members are also stuck in ways of seeing and feeling about things which are causing pain, conflict and loss of all kinds. It’s easy to recognise what’s happening and fix it, if you want to.
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Once you learn to recognise how your feelings and mindsets affect
what you choose to say and do, you really can start to take charge
of your life. It's the beginning of personal mastery. It's our privilege
to help you do it.
