#changingperspective

🌿✨ Change Your Perspective—Transform Your Life! Today, I received a message from someone taking my Building a Brilliant Mind course. They shared how deeply inspired they were by the topic of changing perspective — and it reminded me why this work matters so much. Years ago, I faced a traumatic attack. I made a conscious decision not to let it define me with anger or bitterness. Instead, I chose love, empathy, and healing.

It wasn’t easy, but that choice allowed me to build a life filled with peace, purpose, and strength.

💛 Building a Brilliant Mind is about creating an extraordinary life through mindset, resilience, and self-leadership.

👉Begin your journey now, at your own pace!

Wishing you all the best as you build your amazing life!

I shared this and a photo of my sister on Facebook earlier today. I’ve modified it for this platform.  My older sister loves me so much. She is one of the most generous people I have met in my life. From a young age, she did everything she could to take care of us kids. She tried so hard and never got anything but grief from us. I'm ashamed to say that I've often taken advantage of that generosity, not intentionally, but I did. When I was a teenager and young adult, she was the person I called to help me out of every single horrible situation I got myself into. And, there were some bad, life-altering situations. She never judged me, just helped in whatever capacity she could. 

I remember at my lowest point, when I wanted to die, she told me to go get my hair done and she'd pay for it. I needed to change my perspective on myself. I did and it did. Since then, whenever I'm feeling down, I remember to do one thing to change my perspective. 

She's the reason my business is "Changing lives one perspective at a time." 

For the longest time, she was the "wealthiest" person I knew- but she and her husband didn't really have much for a lot of those early years. What they did have was perseverance and tenacity, and the capacity to do better with the cards they were dealt in life. They worked hard and shared what they could with our family. I took it for granted. 

My sister helped me clothe and feed my children throughout the years, when I was down and out on my luck. After my first divorce, she started sending me her $25 rewards gift cards from Target with instructions to spend it on myself. She knew I put everyone else ahead of me. She sent me those cards for years, until I finally was stable and able to provide for myself and my children without assistance from anyone. I know that once I stopped receiving that generosity, she started sending those to my children and others to help in the same way. Just a few years ago, when I lost both jobs, my apartment, and had to voluntarily repo my truck, she sold me one of their vehicles, had her husband drive it half way to me, and even filled up the gas tank and gave me money to get home.

She's a giver. She can't help it. 

I changed my own perspective in my twenties when I realised the life I was emotionally living wasn't the life I wanted to live. It changed for good in my forties, when and for the first time, I came away with a diagnosis of a disability I didn’t know I had.

Covid-19 and our resistance

In Covid-19 the world embarked on resistance and it’s still resisting 3-years on. We’re back in our lives, but there is still the underlying current, and disconnection between us and us dealing with our mental health.

We all need to adapt and grow

Covid-19 has shown us that it is important to adapt, and that growth is necessary if we are to live our lives successfully, once more. In the pre-pandemic days, we didn’t have to think about our lives, alongside a virus. Life was easier, people were more together, we lived without a care, now without caring, it is easy to get caught out.

Changing perspective happens slowly

Changing perspective happens slowly over time, primarily because of the places and the experiences we're exposed to, but it's often at a pace that we're comfortable with, so change doesn't feel so scary. We didn't always have to think too hard about it, we were confident enough to get on with things.

The CP Diary

Through my writing, The CP Diary helps to change perspectives, as long as you're prepared to put the work in.

Change can be scary, but long-term, without change, time stands still, and we may stagnate. Where change can catch us off guard, we learn that change isn't all bad. Often it's the apprehension we feel that makes change difficult. Through the other end, we learn that changing perspective is a good thing.

In many cases, it can lead us back into our lives, as my experiences have shown.

For Sheila x