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Choose Your Perspective

Have you ever noticed that, no matter how good a situation may be, there’s always “somethin’?”

Case-in-point, roosters.

We finally made it to Costa Rica and it’s wonderful. We did it! We made our dream come true! We’re staying in a little Airbnb in a small town where it seems every family owns a rooster and a dog. The dogs hang out together in the wee hours of the night, barking at every shadow and celebrating their freedom, and the roosters here cannot tell time, so at 3 am they start crowing. I am amazed at how an entire population has learned how to sleep through all of this noise and I’m determined to do the same, but thus far, no luck.

Even in paradise, there’s “somethin’.”

But that’s the way of the world, isn’t it? There is no perfect. Perfect is fantasy. It’s how we deal with and show up in the face of life that matters. In the raw, unedited, real-version, not our pretend, wish-it-could-be-different version. Because you can change locations, you can change jobs, you can change who you hang out with, but no matter the circumstance, you still accompany you.

How you choose to react to the situations at hand will be the sole determining factor in your experience of the situation.

Costa Rica routinely finds itself at the top of the world “Happiness Index,” roosters and all.

Where in your life could you benefit from shifting your perspective? There are people all over the world who live in dire circumstances but have found a way to have peace and joy and contentment in their lives. How might the way you’re interacting with your situation be costing you?

For as I sit here typing, with the rooster-cacophony-soundtrack in the background, I realize that I’ve finished with my writing just in time to go for a walk at sunrise. What a glorious thing! Had the roosters not awakened me, that wouldn’t be possible.

It’s all perspective.

What perspective will serve you in leading the life you want to lead? Choose powerfully.

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Kimberly Davis
Kimberly Davishttps://www.braveleadershipbook.com/
An expert on authentic leadership, Kimberly Davis shares her inspirational message of personal power, responsibility, and impact with organizations across the country and teaches leadership programs world-wide; most notably, her program “OnStage Leadership” which runs in NYC and Dallas, TX. Additionally, Kimberly teaches for Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Cox School of Business’s Executive Education Program's Transformational Leadership Program and their Latino Leadership Initiative. She is also privileged to teach for the Bush Institute’s WE Lead Program (empowering female leaders from the Middle East). Kimberly is a TEDx speaker and her book, Brave Leadership: Unleash Your Most Confident, Authentic, and Powerful Self to Get the Results You Need, is the 2019 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Business and Career; an Amazon Bestseller in Business Leadership, Business Motivation, and Self-Improvement, and Motivational Business Management; and was named as the number one book to read in Inc. Magazine’s “The 12 Most Impactful Books to Read in 2018,” with a cover-endorsement by best-selling author Daniel Pink.

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