How fixed is your world?

When was the last time your world changed? When did a meeting go differently from how you expected? When did a colleague surprise you with something they said or did?

Or outside of work? Do you have the same conversations with your partner, your kids, the shopkeeper?

Throughout our lives we build a filter of how we 'know' the world is. This certainty can be very comforting. But are we limiting ourselves? Cutting off possibilities and opportunities before they have a chance to properly present themselves?

What if we didn't know with such certainty how our colleagues were going to be in a meeting? Would that give them the opportunity to behave differently? Often our assumptions about people can restrict their options for being anything other than what's expected.

And it's not just people. Are there certain projects or tasks which you 'know' to be hard or impossible, some which you 'know' to be easy or fun? I'd like to invite you to consider that this is a perspective and not a fact. And the good news? If you consider it this way then you get to choose a new perspective if you don't like the one you have or it isn't helping you.

Try it.