Someday Somewhere: Perspective

Monday, July 21, 2014

UBC Jul 21 - Perspective

Ultimate Blogging Challenge and NaBloPoMo - Day 21

Change your perspective

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Have you been in a situation where you were either going round in circles with no end in sight or travelling down a road that seemed to take you nowhere, or come to a dead end, or in an anxious or upsetting situation?

That's a good time to step back and change your perspective.

Sometime ago my son came home in despair. The presentation of his group came under great criticism and he was afraid he was going to fail. He had also challenged his tutors and they got more critical because of that so eventually he stayed quiet and simply listened.

My instinct was to of course panic a bit and then give him a earful for not putting in enough effort and for challenging the tutors. But that would have been completely futile and de-motivating.

Besides, the results weren't out, he had put in a lot of effort despite being quite sick, feedback is always quite subjective and actually he was obviously confident about his work.

He had also learned a few lessons - not to depend on others, that it was okay to challenge but also to back off when things were not moving in the right direction.

So instead we put this project to bed and focussed on the next one. In the end, he didn't fail that project and he did well enough in the next one to get a very good final grade.

If things are not going the way you intend it to go, change your perspective. You may find the answers lie in another direction.

May you find all answers today.

Warm Regards