“Show Me A Day When the World Wasn’t New”
That’s a quote I love by Sister Barbara Hence, a beloved nun who died in 1993.
It’s on a greeting card my sister sent to me 20 years ago. And it’s lived on my refrigerator door ever since. It has a black and white photo of a little girl with a slightly dirty face looking out her window with knowing eyes. On the sill, a single sparrow is looking right back at her.
They’re having a private conversation. The kind that seem to only be readily available to children, the rest of us can get glimpses in if we’re focusing. If we want to see and feel with uncorrupted eyes, it’s just a little practice—a shift of perspective.
But from my perspective as a brand and story developer for businesses with one to a thousand employees and authors who want any chance of standing out; you need a shift of perspective. Every day. No matter how tiny.
You need to look for what you notice. But nobody else sees.
This is where I can come in to help.
In a way that is simple but not simplistic. Fun and powerful.
Here’s a game that came back to me to play on my walk last week. And I’ve been playing it daily since. It’s called I Spy with My Little Eye. Remember this from the second grade?
I spy something green. Something blue. I spy something that belongs in a barn. I spy a woman walking up our hill with a walking stick. She had a 75-year-old parrot (she told me) on her shoulder and two little dogs on leashes. It’s a game teachers used to help expand your awareness and memory skills To look beyond the mundane. To expand your creative juices. And it’s stuck around.
Because it works. Even if you play it alone. Even if you already have lots of tactics and strategies.
To play at your house. In your neighborhood. At your office. In your thoughts. To not give up on believing in your vision. Something you see out there or inside yourself.
Try this: Look for three little discoveries a day. They’ll start looking back at you.
I Spy with My Little Eye, in this new little odd town where I live, a giant bird in my driveway. Plunked down right behind my car. I don’t know what he is, but he’s not about to budge.
We’re looking right at each other’s eyes. Having a conversation. I had to get to the grocery store. I feared he answered, “you are MY grocery store.”
Fortunately, a neighbor with chickens and a rooster in his yard explained, “that’s a vulture! He’s waiting for you to leave. He’s here for that dead squirrel on your curb. See?”
I spy road kill. Yuck.
“Don’t be dead and you’ll have nothing to worry about,” the man tells me.
A line I will remember and repurpose over and over again.
So, what was the something new that showed itself to me that day? After living in Chicago, L.A. and New York, New York all my life?
A little tune.
“If I can make it here, I’ll make it anywhere.”
But first, I have to keep seeing with fresh eyes.
The people you serve need and want a new perspective. Millions are waiting for a new world.
Probably the one you see but nobody else notices.
I can help you align with yours and get noticed.
Are you ready to make it simpler on yourself?
Please connect with me and let’s talk.