Tuesday = Take new perspectives

“Our workplace was fragmented and each of us was locked into our own truth. In a very fun and lively way, Billy showed us how we are always living in a perspective.”

Each day of the week we can focus on an alliterative attitude to lighten up and love life laughing:   Tuesday is a day to develop and practice flexibility. One of our greatest follies as human beings is that we have one way of viewing life and we quickly forget that it is not the truth or the only way to see things. This is a day to cultivate a willingness to see things another way. I believe it was Dalai Lama who said, “You can be right, or you can be happy.” If we can let go of being right and be open to new ideas and experiences, we will very likely enhance our relationships and laugh a lot more. Generally if I’m right (and making you wrong), we are probably not going to be doing much chuckling together. An open mind paves the way to more fun and greater ease. Tuesday is also a day to create novelty. We can easily get locked into ruts and familiar ways of conducting life. We add more pizzazz to life when we try new adventures. It could be something as simple as taking a different route to work as a starter. A friend of mine suggests that you go to the grocery store and find some fruit or vegetable that you don’t know what it is. Just be sure to get the name. Then go home and Google yourself a recipe. One practice you can attempt on Tuesdays is when you find yourself in a position of potential disagreement and you notice that you are about to cling to your righteousness, muster getting the words “that’s another way of looking at it” out of your mouth. Even if in the back of your mind you are thinking, “that’s a stupid way of looking at it,” it’s a good start. We perpetually believe that we are seeing things the way they are, when maybe our view is through a fun-house mirror. If we can embrace a little humility and not be so certain that we see things from a privileged point of view, we can be curious about how others experience the world and have fun understanding different ways of seeing life.