Routines, habits, life-acquired filters. They’re helpful in managing the day to day.
On the other hand, rigidly adhered to, never examined for value, they become blinkers, or worse, blindfolds, blocking the light of higher possibility.
The world shifts, its issues ever more pressing, our perspective stays stuck. We operate solo, and as organisations, on autopilot. Thinking and decisions on repeat.
What we look at and from where needs consciously disrupting. A different vantage point reveals new data, altered perspective. In this unfamiliar land new possibilities, ideas, ways, emerge.
If we want to create a better world for all (of course we do) the blindfold must be ripped off. Yesterday’s thinking won’t solve today’s challenges, or tomorrow’s.
Start small. Imagine changing your route to work, or doing that regular walk in reverse. A different picture emerges. ‘Wallpaper’ is replaced with a vista more vivid. Perspective shifts. And we can engage with a new appreciation.