{"id":3402,"date":"2024-10-18T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:22:41","slug":"perspectives-from-a-puddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/2024\/10\/18\/perspectives-from-a-puddle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How a Simple Shift in Perspective Can Change Everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-521ec96f206735e61c6d4ed3c449ed56\">I love to sit in our corner chair on the back porch. It\u2019s&nbsp;relaxing, mostly quiet and beautiful on many mornings. One day, recently, I shifted onto a beanbag chair, which our son had dumped out from his room. Thought to myself: \u201cHey, it\u2019s actually really nice and comfortable here.\u201d And it&#8217;s kind of a cool perspective to chill here and read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingpotential.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6626-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3392\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0ee9f513c3ed4c9d136357e809b8e8f2\">I had noticed the previous night\u2019s rain puddles on the patio and thought nothing of it. Now, that I was sitting on ground level, I suddenly noticed that the same puddle was giving me cool reflection from a different perspective. Moving around a bit more from where I sat, I saw beautiful things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingpotential.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6624-576x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3393\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79\"]{font-size:var(--global-kb-font-size-lg, 2rem);font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79 mark, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79\"] mark{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h6 class=\"kt-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading3402_d7de7e-79\">THE POWER OF A PERSPECTIVE<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-83f569e127350298ba52a2913792cca8\">This got me thinking of what a difference our perspective makes. Imagine this: you&#8217;re sitting in rush hour traffic and you&#8217;re bound to be there for an hour. At that moment, you have some an option about your attitude and approach to the situation. 1) You could think, &#8220;Man, I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m stuck here for an hour. What a waste!&#8221; 2) You could think, &#8220;Well, since I&#8217;m gonna be here for an hour, let me make some useful phone calls, listen to an audio book, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e8cbab6d940695bd8a1c41e9a03aeb1f\">So often in life, we simply look at things from our point of view and judge things as we see them. \u201cOh, that&#8217;s just a puddle.\u201d &#8220;Oh, she&#8217;s just like that.&#8221; &#8220;Oh, this is just another boring day at work.&#8221; But, if we take a moment to move and alter our perspective, we just might see things in a different light.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5472591cb39779e12dc7c46e9df9f812\">How many times do we judge a person by his or her appearance? I\u2019ve done it way too many times. Sometimes a new acquaintance, that I least expected to learn something from, has turned out to be a profoundly wise and an insightful person that I learned A TON from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e7df776924de502b88cc5401d9f018b8\">How many times do we judge circumstances based on our perspective. \u201cMan, I have to do a bunch of house chores today.\u201d Wait a minute\u2026 you have a house? You have clothes, dishes and belongings to clean up? That\u2019s a privilege. (See my other recent article, \u201cI get to, not have to.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-8-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bba8d68d5edc1e04890f3fb1a507441f\">So, take this lesson from the puddle: Don\u2019t ascend to look down on people. Descend and look up at them. What can you learn from them? Guaranteed, a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">FOLLOW &amp; CONTACT:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I hope you liked this article. \ud83d\ude00 If you need some help with perspective, click <a href=\"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/personalcoaching\/\" title=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to sit in our corner chair on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perspectives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions\/3837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raisingpotential.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}