The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

by Andy Andrews

Second … there is a benefit to not owning a bunch of stuff.”

everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold.

There is no growth on the top of a mountain.

Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next de...

But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the...

climb the nex...

It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables...

you are sleeping on fertile ground.

Think. Learn. Pray. Plan. Dream. For soon … you will become.”

Winston Churchill. Will Rogers. George Washington Carver.

experience is not the best teacher.

Other people's experience is the best teacher.

By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to...

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases.”

“When you focus on the things you need,” he went on to explain, “you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't

have — and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose … But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”

“A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.”

‘What is it about me that other people would change if they could?’”

if you want people to believe the things you believe or buy what you are selling — then others must at least be comfortable around you.

A successful life has a great deal to do with perspective. And another

person's perspective about you can sometimes be as important as your perspect...

“Incidentally,” he said with a smirk, “you ate sardines and Vienna sausages in the sand. I dined on surf and turf with an ocean view.” He slapped me on the back. “It's all about perspective.”

“Most folks figure a true friend is someone who accepts them as they are. But that's dangerous garbage to believe.”

But a true friend holds you to a higher standard.

A true friend brings out the best in you.”

“A best friend,” he said softly, “will tell you the truth … and a wise best friend will include a healthy dose of perspective.”

“I was in a city one night — Chicago, it was, come to think of it — and I saw a man chase a hat that had blown off someone's head into the

street. A car hit him and killed him dead.”

“I just think it's amazing,” Jones answered, looking straight ahead, “that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.”

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

The first thing you need to know is that you worry — or you feel this crazy fear — because you're smart.

Worry … fear … is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us.

and two, you have to defeat those thoughts with logic.

“Forty percent of the things you worry about will never occur anyway.

“30%.” “Thirty percent,” he said, looking up again, “of the things you worry about are things that have already happened — in the past.

“Ten percent,” he said next, as he wrote, “would be petty-little-nothing worries about what other people think.” He looked up. “And we can't do nothin’ about what other people think.

“Eight percent,” Jones answered, “for legitimate

concerns.

“But … it should be noted that these legitimate concerns are things that can ...

Most people spend so much time fearing the things that are never going to happen or can't be controlled that they have no energy to deal with ...

On that pad, I want you to list things in your life that you are grateful for.

them their jobs and relationships. That is incorrect. A person consumed by worry can focus. Isn't it obvious? Worry is focus! But it is focus on the wrong things.

to calculate the odds. From this point forward, you will focus on what can be controlled. And you will no longer be sad or worried. You will be grateful! After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

Wisdom that can change the very course of your life will come from the people you are around, the books you read, and the things you listen to or watch on radio or television.

“One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

Because he is already seeking and gathering wisdom that will help him make the perfect choice.

But you can be physically attracted to a lot of people. You don't believe me? Turn on the TV or walk down the beach.

you can tell a lot about a tree from a single leaf.

“You can tell a lot about a person from the leaves they drop as well.

“it's really not. It's just different.