Category Archives: Carrot Life Lenses
Peace with pants: an evolved Mountain Life Lens™ is a strategic partner
I’m a Carrot Life Lens™ and my partner is a Mountain Life Lens™. I go gaga over details and systems while he loves the big picture and the view from above. When we were putting away some laundry lately, I … Continue reading
See ME! Relate to ME! A guide for managing change
My son & I bought some new soccer equipment for him the other day. Afterwards he was ogling his new purchases, including the box that the soccer shoes came in (see said box above). If you take a closer look, … Continue reading
Are you my drummer or am I your singer? Seth Godin on the Stones
I was caught by this post by Seth Godin. Are you my drummer or am I your singer? It’s all in the perspective. Notice how the perspective dramatically shifts…. Keith Richards tells a great story about Charlie Watts, legendary drummer … Continue reading
What frames your view? A Life Lenses™ take on provocative video
Is the video below funny, creative, rule breaking and subversive or a waste of time, waste of energy and sadly pathetic? Depends on your view. Depends on how you frame things. A Carrot Life Lens™ appreciates the attention to detail. … Continue reading
Oh, that I could shrink the surface of the world (for some perspective)…
Wang Chien (AD 756–835) eloquently wrote the above when he heard his friend was coming back from the war. It came my way recently from a dear friend (thanks Michelle for your muse). It got me thinking about what creates distance … Continue reading
Near miss – because you can’t look up & down a the same time
Carrot Life Lenses™ look down. They see the details. Mountain Life Lenses™ look up. They see patterns and trends. No matter where you’re looking, you’ll see some things and you’ll miss some things. You can’t look everywhere with ease. The … Continue reading
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Tagged carrot lens, ease, loosing perspective, mountain lens, perspective
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Complexity made simple – that’s what a good assessment does
(Me: in official, officious tone…) Today I’m going to teach you about reverse laminar flow. (You: in confused, bewildered tone…) Say what? Complexity made simple. If they’re any good that’s what assessments do. Take complicated, complex human beings and complicated, … Continue reading
Perspective enhancing yogurt
Perspective. It’s possible to change it even in the wee hours of the morning. Before a ridiculously self-imposed early morning flight from New York to Vancouver I recently found myself grabbing the above yogurt for the plane ride. When I … Continue reading
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Tagged perspective, stonyfield, yogurt
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How mountains & cantaloupes go together when it comes to the high view
After laughing out loud at this one, and firmly pushing back memories of ugh-inducing highschool algebra classes that threatened to emerge, the cartoon made me think of the lessons that cantaloupes a.k.a. Mountain Life Lenses™ have to teach us. On … Continue reading
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Tagged carrot lens, mountain lens, perspective
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Overheard one dark & rainy night- argument between a Carrot & Mountain Life Lens™
I’d just stepped off the skytrain, Vancouver’s public transit, on a dark & rainy night. Eager to get home I couldn’t help but notice a big truck parked facing the wrong way on the street, nose to nose with another … Continue reading
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Tagged carrot lens, mountain lens
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