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Nothing Like a Little Below 0 Windchill to Change Your Mind

1/29/2019

 
When I arrived on Peaks Island, Maine last spring and went to Hannigan's grocery store [a glorified 7-11, I thought, in my Portland, Oregon foodie snobbery], I laughed aloud at the tagline on their truck:
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I snorted to myself, "I beg to differ."

But last week, when the wind chill of 17º below, I was setting out to go to my knitting meet-up and grocery shop in town. I walked half a block and decided to go to Hannigan's instead-- then back home where I had heat and a good book.

When I saw that tagline on the truck outside the market, I said to myself . . .  "Damn straight."

Our perspective can change a situation in a freezing rain flash.

And that perspective is everything. You can change a situation just by how you look at it, your interpretation or opinion.

Alas, it's hard to look at things differently if we're just listening to our thoughts in our own head. 

I've noticed when clients reach out for help, they often wait too long before they do so. I ran that idea by a couple consulting clients this week, and they had seen the same thing in their industry. We tend to be so independent, thinking "I can solve this!' If people had reached out sooner, they would have created a new approach to a situation that they hadn't thought of before. They might not have become quite as frustrated for as long or the situation might not have become worse. Progress would be faster.

If you find yourself trying to change a situation but getting frustrated instead, please schedule some time here. We often need an outside perspective to approach a situation in a new way, creating different results.
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