The view from a mountain (1 of the Life Lenses™ self-assessment)

October 6th, 2010

If the vision is there the means will follow (Faith Popcorn)

Are you great at being able to see over the horizon to see what’s coming?  Recognize trends easily?  Do you naturally find patterns in large amounts of information?  Are you great at starting projects?  Are you a big vision kind of person?

If so perhaps you’re a mountain or know someone else who is a mountain, one of the 8 Life Lenses™.

Mountains see the big picture.  Their head (and attention) is focused upwards.  Mountains relax by thinking big and broad, mulling over trends and patterns.  If you could peek into their gray matter you’d see lots of thought bubbles floating by, connecting disparate ideas in new ways.  They easily try new things (the word ‘mistake’ isn’t really in their vocabulary) and consequently they can be quite forgiving.  Something not work out?  No problem to a mountain, they’ll quickly have 5 more ideas of how to proceed.

Imagine standing atop a majestic mountain, the view is broad, wide and encompassing.  A mountain sees the forest not the individual trees, that’s its strength.

I’m married to the Mount Everest of mountains – he effortlessly skims thick reports and can see how the overall concepts connect (or don’t).  He keeps his focus on the big picture.

Does the idea of examining a big report for the broad patterns or overall concepts it contains make you go ‘hmmm, I’d love to do that, in fact let me dive into the report I have at my elbow right now’.  Or does it make you groan, thinking you’d rather have a bikini wax.  If the latter, my guess is you’re not a mountain but rather a carrot, the mountain’s opposite.

Life Lenses™ is an interactive, self-assessment tool designed to identify the invisible lenses that you wear, the lenses that colour your perspective and shape how you see the world.  Life Lenses™ teaches you how to see yourself, understand others and makes communicating easier than you ever imagined it could be.

Life Lenses™ will be available online shortly.  Are you ready to see clearly?

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Calling all carrots (one of the Life Lenses™ self-assessment)

October 6th, 2010

God is in the details (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

Do you love to create systems?  Do you notice details that other miss?  Do you have an uncanny ability to focus?  Do you not like to leave things undone?

If so, perhaps you’re a carrot or know someone else who is a carrot, one of the 8 Life Lenses™.

Carrots are good finishers, they don’t like loose ends.  Carrots relax by organizing things and creating systems.  Look in a carrot’s desk and you’re likely to find a place of systems.  Look at their filing system and it’s likely to have a detailed plan behind it.  Able to peek into their closet and you’re apt to see …. yes, a system – dress pants go here, casual pants there, long sleeve shirts here…. you get the idea.

Imagine a carrot growing in the ground.  It doesn’t have a wide view but rather a detailed focus view.  That’s its strength.

I grew up with a carrot mother, in fact to this day she still alphabetizes her spices.

Does that notion make you go, ‘hmmmm, I can see the merit in that’?  Or does it make you shudder?  If the latter, my guess is you’re not a carrot.  Stay tuned for the carrot’s opposite, the mountain, in the next blog.

Life Lenses™ is an interactive, self-assessment tool designed to identify the invisible lenses that you wear, the lenses that colour your perspective and shape how you see the world.  Life Lenses™ teaches you how to see yourself, understand others and makes communicating easier than you ever imagined it could be.

Life Lenses™ will be available online shortly.  Are you ready to see clearly?

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Life Lenses™ – Are you ready to see clearly?

October 6th, 2010

  • “Really trying hard to implement the ‘diversity thing’ but in reality it’s driving you nuts?”
  • “Feel like your boss might as well be speaking Latin for all you understand him/her?
  • “Does what’s important to you get dismissed at work?”
  • “Want to take your organization to the next level but you’re stuck with doubt due to competing perspectives?”

These challenges arise because we don’t have a clear view of ourselves or others.  Our perspective is unclear because we can’t step out of our own frame to see the whole view.  We’re naturally biased (for example we lean towards favouring our own perspectives) and that bias affects our success.

Most of us are not aware of our own biases and how they get in the way of our relationships with ourselves and others.

Put another way, our perspective is coloured by the lenses we all wear – the lenses that affect what comes onto our radar easily, naturally and comfortably AND what never makes it onto our radar, our awareness, in the first place.

Life Lenses™, a simple self-assessment, make the lenses we all wear visible, the lenses that colour our perspective and affect how we act, what we think and the decisions we make.

Being aware of your lenses, your Life Lenses™, are as essential to communication as windshields are to cars.

Are you ready to see clearly?  Watch for the upcoming global launch of Life Lenses™ online.

But first here’s a sneak peak.  What are the Life Lenses™?  They are 8 lenses that are arranged in opposite pairs.  Allow me to introduce them…

Carrot lenses love details and systems, while mountain lenses love trends, patterns, big concepts

Stop lenses require reflection while go lenses require action

Head lenses pay attention to facts while heart lenses prioritize feelings and intuition

Journey lenses focus on the process while for destination lenses it’s all about getting things done

Want to find out more?  Simply sign up to receive updates and be among the first to take the Life Lenses™ online assessment. Stay tuned for upcoming blog posts that will explain the Life Lenses™ in more detail.

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I'm launching Life Lenses™ online at the W.I.N conference in Paris

October 6th, 2010


I'm tickled pink, no actually blue, orange, yellow and bunch of other colours to announce I've been selected to speak at the upcoming Women's International Networking (W.I.N.) conference in Paris, October 5-9, 2010. I'll be doing a workshop on “Life Lenses™: polish your perspective & gain a whole new view”.

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The global launch of putting “Life Lenses™” online will also happen at the conference. For the first time anyone with access to the internet will be able to assess their lenses.

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Intrigued? Read on…

“Are you often misunderstood?”

“Ever work with someone who seems like they are from another planet?”

“Frustrated by co-workers or family members who communicate in confusing ways?”

Most of us are not aware of our own biases and how they get in the way of our relationships with ourselves and others. Life Lenses™ are as essential to communication as windshield wipers are to cars.

Life Lenses™ is an interactive, self-assessment tool designed to identify how you view the world and the impact of your views. Life Lenses™ illuminates the invisible lenses that you wear, the lenses that colour your perspective and shape how you see the world.

Life Lenses™ teaches you how to see yourself, understand others and makes communicating easier than you ever imagined it could be.

Are you ready to see clearly?

Watch for upcoming blog posts on each of the Life Lenses™ and how you can get involved.

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