It is so easy to slip into the pattern of seeing challenging situations or obstacles that we are accustomed to, with familiar eyes and limiting beliefs. The question is, how do we shake things up and let the sunshine in?

While I was studying Applied Positive Psychology, the professor recommended a simple way to shift ourselves out of our thinking ruts when we face what feels like an insurmountable challenge. By simply priming our thinking with the statement “another way to look at this is…”, we are expanding the possibilities and gaining peripheral perspective.

We are changing the way we are looking at things and allowing what we are looking at to change.

Try it with a problem you keeping bumping up against. It works wonders!