Category Archives: Go Life Lenses
Laying it bare – monthly round up of September Life Lenses™ blog posts
We’re laying it bare. Stripping it down. Peeling back perspective. In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of September. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around … Continue reading
Posted in All Life Lenses, Go Life Lenses, Journey Life Lenses
Tagged assimilation, barbie, perspective, rolling stones, self-awareness, seth godin
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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
This light never turns green (& other complaints from Go Life Lenses™)
This photo made me laugh out loud – it’s a perpetual complaint self-assessed Go Life Lenses™ have of Stop Life Lenses™. Do you know someone who always wants to think things over for a loooooong time before taking action? Wants … Continue reading
Posted in Go Life Lenses, Stop Life Lenses
Tagged go lens, personality test, self-assessment, stop lens
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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
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
Posted in Carrot Life Lenses, Go Life Lenses, Heart Life Lenses, Journey Life Lenses
Tagged perspective, stonyfield, yogurt
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Spontaneous heartfelt Jen Louden
Spontaneous and heartfelt is how I’d describe the fabulous Jen Louden. I was listening to her on a teleseminar recently. In an inspired moment of brilliance she said, describing herself, I shoot from the hip and the heart. Flashbulbs went … Continue reading
Posted in Go Life Lenses, Heart Life Lenses
Tagged go lens, heart lens, jen louden, spontaneous
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Posturing … with a moose
Posturing = power dynamics + lack of awareness. Posturing def’n = a particular way of behaving that is intended to convey a false impression. When someone is posturing they’re trying to hide how they feel inside. Posture + power = … Continue reading
Posted in Go Life Lenses, Stop Life Lenses
Tagged go lens, posture, posturing, power, power dynamics, stop lens
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Oceans of opportunities open up with perspective game changer
What do you do if you want to play soccer but you live in a village that floats on water? Check out this perspective changing true video to see how it’s done. Watch for examples of: the Go Life Lenses™ … Continue reading
My go then stop kid & what I learned from his homemade milkshake
I have two kids. One is an extreme Stop Life Lens™ and 1 is an extreme Go Life Lens™. Funny how such different kids came out of the same uterus. Click here for what I learned from my Stop Lens … Continue reading