Change Your Perspective and You Change Your Life
Author:
November 23, 2020
Your
perspective, or the way you view a situation/scenario, can either make you or
break you. When we choose to view things from a negative lens, we negatively
impact our mood, our potential, and our ability to succeed. However, when we
choose to view things positively, we have the ability to have a significant
positive impact within our own lives and even the lives of others in both the
short and long-term.
Positive Mood
One
of the most significant impacts our perspectives have is on our mood and mental
well-being. A negative perspective views change and challenges as something to
be feared and avoided. This attitude and approach produce a stress response
that can increase our anxiety and cause us to respond in anger, with sorrow, or
even become totally isolated.
A
positive perspective, on the other hand, changes our view of change and
challenges to one of opportunity. Through this lens, we become open to change
and challenges and are better able to embrace them which means they don’t
become stressors in our lives. This helps us maintain our peace and calm so
that we can reason and function, thereby more appropriately respond to the
situation or scenario (Solarin, 2017).
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