This is not an insect trivia question but an attempt to tease your mind into thinking how small things, like a house fly, can impact your world. And it’s all in your thought patterns…
This video is very useful in my coaching on personal effectiveness program as it vividly illustrates, with the help of a pesky insect character: the fly, how our thoughts define us and our world. How each of us perceive the world is a product of our respective genes and experiences (upbringing and environment), so each one has a unique view of the world, like having unique pairs of colored glasses through which we see and judge the world around us. This is also to say that two people can look at the same object and yet perceive it differently, and both can be correct!
Recognizing that we actually selectively see (albeit unconsciously) some parts of what is happening around us, which is actually an adaptation or else our brains may “overheat” due to information overload, it is useful to learn to borrow others’ sets of colored glasses and benefit from them. Sometimes, an aha! moment happens that forces us to a change of point of view…a paradigm shift.
Going back to the fly, by focusing on the annoyance, our swordsman only magnified the impact of one tiny insect and saw many more of the same peskiness. If what we’ve been thinking are the horrors, the ills and the evil around us, we tend to see them first and perhaps even see only the negative of what is around us. Thus, sad people easily spot reasons to be sorrowful, resentful people easily find something to be angry about, and happy people easily stumble upon pleasant things. In short, positive people find good things to be thankful for, while negative people see the bad side of people and events, mostly because each focuses on different aspects of an objective reality.
Now, do you tend to be pessimistic, critical and worry a lot? Don’t blame your ancestors, parents, neighbors, classmates, friends, enemies, the government leaders, etc. Because the good news is that we always have a choice on how we react to what we sense, and even change our perception by shifting our focus on what is helpful to us and our well-being. Changing our thought patterns, changes our world.
Remember that, as a famous quote goes, thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, habits become character, and character becomes destiny.
I’ve personally made a paradigm shift and I invite you to choose to focus on the good things happening to you and not sweat the small stuff…not even a fly.
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