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Frozen perspective
1/9/2014 6:59:11 AM


There is nothing like a little deep freeze to get your perspective in order. This past week, an arctic blast hit much of the United States. It seems that the jet stream pushed the arctic cold that is typically kept - well, in the arctic - down south as far as Florida. I know where I live everything was just cold. How cold? Let me say that inside my garage, where our cat eats her daily kibble, the water in her drink container had frozen into a block of ice. On the other side of my garage door, it was 40 degrees colder than it was inside the garage! It was so cold that cars stopped working. I don’t mean they slid off the road and got stuck in a bank of snow. I mean that they just stopped working – in the middle of the street. Fluids inside the car were too thick to move. Belts and gaskets gave way in the cold. My youngest son heard about an experiment where boiling water thrown into the air will turn into snow in sub-zero temperatures. He tried it and it works!

If you got caught in the deep freeze, I imagine you had a few days of staying inside and breaking your normal routine. I have found that when my "normal” gets changed, it is an opportunity to get a new perspective on what is often overlooked or taken for granted. If you are like me, you may have come away with a greater appreciation for the little things that make my life run – like warmth, a good meal with my family, the guy that plowed snow from our street, running water, a cup of hot tea after shoveling the sidewalk and driveway, a board game that lasts hours. You get the picture, right?

At this point in most of my Nailing Post articles, I would turn this into an equation for business success and say something like, "take a lesson from this January deep freeze and become the marketer of things that are essential in times of crisis – like bread and milk.” However, I am going to go another route here and just say that healthy people need a reality check every now and then. In my case, it typically takes a major snowstorm to halt all normal business to make that happen. Normally, I don’t like to slow down. I am geared to run at full steam unless I am asleep. But if I never break that "normal” every now and then – or in this case – have normal redefined for me for a few days, I run past some of the best things in life. So let me offer a little frozen perspective. You don’t have to stop running at full tilt, but you do need to break that motion every now and then. Take time to read the comics in the newspaper and eat a stack of pancakes. Give yourself time to do something you don’t normally do. Take a day to come at life from a slower speed. Stop yourself from rushing ahead every now and then. I have known a few successful people in my life. I don’t mean they were good at their job, I mean they were successful because they had a life that was meaningful. All of them had the little things of life in the right perspective. They all took time to ponder what was happening around them and expressed gratitude for it. Frozen perspective. Learn a lesson from your change of pace.
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