Do you see only the negative? Do you see only what’s possible? Maybe you just don’t care because you are living life as it happens.

How you see things shape your thoughts, your mindset, your intentions for the day, your opinions, your decisions, and your actions (plus reactions), and your responses.

And what you see comes from your perspective!!

Perspective is defined as a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

However, I want you to consider the first definition of perspective as a noun.

Perspective is the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

How interesting that perspective is based on how we see and experience things, and it also is defined from an artistic point of view.

There is depth to your situation. There is a sense of height as to how the seriousness of a circumstance you face. The position you are in is relative only to the viewpoint in which you see.

The power of perspective.

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard (Danish Christian philosopher and theologian)

Have you ever tried to live life backward? It is next to impossible. I can’t imagine walking around backward all day in order to go forwards.

But what Søren is saying here is that you may not understand why you are experiencing life the way you see it, but you still need to move forward regardless. The understanding may not come until years of forward progress.

Perspective can hold you back or push your forward. It’s all in your presence. Presence rules perspective.

The K.I.S.S. ~ Presence rules perspective!

Your presence is what sets you apart from those who just hang-out for convenience living life. Life happens to them, not because of them.

Don’t be absent when you can be present.

1. What does this make possible? When you look at life from an optimistic perspective, what you perceive changes. There is a different landscape.
2. Lead your day with gratitude. Nothing is more freeing to the mind than gratitude. If you are appreciative of the little things, when the big things happen, you will be able to see the little blessings in the big messes.
3. Presence rules perspective. When you pay attention and are alert to what is happening around you, there is more beauty to experience and less strife. But if all we see are the problems and messes, you bet you’ll only recognize that which is slammed in front of you.

You have a choice. Live life or let life live in you. You can live life with intention or live life with reactions. You get to decide this every day you are blessed in seeing the sun rise.

Don’t take for granted what God has placed before you. Be aware of what is happening in your every day.

“One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!” ~ Kristianne Wargo

You have a wide lens and a narrow lens. It’s not one-lens-fits-all.

Get in the game of life. Live life forward, and be okay when you only understand it backward.

“Be present. Be incredible. Be YOU!!!“