A professor draws a tiny black dot in the middle of a blank piece of paper. He holds it up to the class. Every student talks about the dot.

Nobody mentions the 99% of the paper that’s blank.

That’s the power of perspective. As Anais Nin said: “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” Your filter is invisible to you, but it’s everywhere. And the most common version I hear from my coaching clients sounds like this: “If only I had more staff. If only I had a better team. If only…”

If only is a trap. And in this episode, I’ll show you the 4-step Mad Libs exercise to climb out of it.

🎧 Press play. Stop staring at the dot.

In this episode:

▶ The professor’s dot experiment and the power of perspective it reveals
▶ Anais Nin and why we see things as we are, not as they are
▶ The “If only…” trap that keeps leaders stuck
▶ Why you aren’t actually the hero of your own story
▶ Henry David Thoreau’s line about what you look at vs what you see
▶ The 4-step Mad Libs exercise to shift your perspective
▶ The behavior change question that flips everything

If you’ve been blaming circumstances instead of looking at yourself, this one’s for you.

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