Look up! (image courtesy of taqu)
Last week, I released my free e-book 5 Simple Steps to An Awesome Life. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s an excerpt to give you a taste of what you will find inside. If you have already read the e-book, feel free to skip this post.
Look up!
For years, I used to walk around looking at my feet. Then, one day, I read it’s a really cool idea to actually look up and about while walking. So the next time I walked to school (I was in high school back then), I looked up. (It took some serious mental effort to keep my gaze off the ground.)
I was like “Wow! The world looks so awesome when you stop looking at your feet!” I would just look in the distance, and a simple walk down the street would turn into an epic movie scene. I would look at things along the road, and notice how the stuff closer to me moves by faster, and the stuff further away moves by slower. I realized I hadn’t done that since I was a small kid. And again, it looked eerily like a movie.
I also use this as a metaphor for life in general. Life is awesome once you start noticing it. Once you “take your eyes off the ground” (stop being stuck in your head and start noticing everything around you), life becomes so much richer!
As I kept my gaze off the ground, and walked around like that more and more, I started noticing things. Friends would nod and greet me from the distance. Plenty of people at school would make eye contact and smile as we got closer. I realized there’s plenty of eye contact WANTING to happen to you. You just need to keep your eyes off the ground.
And it’s the same in life. There’s plenty of “eye contact” that WANTS to happen to you. People want to know you. Organizations want to work with you. Successful people want to give advice to you. But you will overlook all that if you keep looking at your feet. So glance up, and make the first step of approaching someone. Life is too short to be spent looking at your feet.
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Cheers, and see you with new exciting stuff on Friday!
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Thanks for removing the RSS requirement, now I will read your book. I have no interest in RSS, since I have a perfectly functional web browser with a perfectly functional bookmarking system