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January 2, 2012

Are You Seeing the Things that Make a Difference to Your Business and Your Life?

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:18 am

Where Do You Focus Your Vision?

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Take a 60-second look at this lights in this photo then try not to look back again as you answer the questions that follow it.

Now look at this while space for a while as you scroll down to a few questions about what you saw.

Where do you focus your vision? What’s important in your business and your life?

Are You Seeing the Things that Make a Difference to Your Business and Your Life?

Everyday we interact with a world of information that has potential for adding something to our our business, our brand, and our life. But the ways our brains work, the way we jealously guard our time time, we as easily overlook what we’re seeing as finding the fuel and the data that might …

And those those thoughts, those beliefs change our world by changing what we see and how we respond it.

So answer me this, when you saw photo above, did you see …

Think for a minute about what you saw and what you missed. Were looking with your heart or with your head? Or did you hardly even look?

I started taking photos of the harbor so that I would remember to look. After months of pictures what I’ve found is that the harbor never looks exactly the same twice. The light and color from the sky add mood and flavor. They communicate about the weather that is and the weather is coming. They communicate about my connection to it. And that communication has unlimited power to open my eyes, open my mind, open my heart to what inspires me to what’s important in my business and my life.

Did you believe that you didn’t have time to really look? It’s not just the beautiful harbor. It’s the clouds and colors in the sky that change one day to the next.

It’s not just the “what” of the bar graph. It’s the people behind it that tell you the “why.”
It’s in the looking that we find the nuance, the detail, and the color that inform a business, a brand, and a life. Understand those and your work and your life will become easier, simpler, and more meaningful.

Are you seeing the things that make a difference to your business and your life?

Be irresistible.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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4 Comments to “Are You Seeing the Things that Make a Difference to Your Business and Your Life?”

  1. January 2nd, 2012 at 8:01 am
    Eva said

    Great piece! Loving it! Very inspiring indeed. Although I have spent much time on inspiring myself, I have never achieve a solution to my questions, life just move on to the next problem one after the other and not much time to ponder or reflect on the existing problem or the picture as shown in your piece.

  2. January 2nd, 2012 at 11:03 am
    Diane Brogan said

    Who knew that the same view of the harbor could change so much, not only from day to day, but hour to hour. Thank you for sharing your pictures Liz. Your titles have often pointed out things I didn’t see or helped me see things differently. I now look for more details. I see more in life thanks to sharing your harbor pictures. Keep up the good work. It matters.

  3. January 4th, 2012 at 9:36 am
    Charlie Screendrip said

    You’re right. We often look, but we don’t take the time to see.

    This was a really refreshing post, thanks Liz.

  4. January 7th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
    Michelle Russell said

    Nice, Liz! I don’t think we can ever have too many reminders to stop, be present in the moment, and really sense what’s around us.

    I think a lot about overwhelm and how to deal with it, and because there’s so much more than we can ever possibly take in (at least consciously), it strikes me there’s a certain inherent faith in practicing present-moment awareness. It’s too easy to worry whether you’re focusing on the “right” things…and often difficult to believe or trust that the things you need will come your way without your frantically having to search for them.

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