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What’s your perspective on the world, your life, your work and everything else?

How you view the world is central to how you experience it. Your worldview determines what you make of the world and how you feel about it. How you feel will determine how you will behave and act. Your action determines the reaction or results.

Your outlook determines your outcome.

Whether something good or had happens, you are presented with a choice: you can determine the meaning of the event. I’m not suggesting that you should deny the reality of things, but I’m saying you can choose your response and let things work in your favor. In any situation, you can choose to be the victim or the victor.

For every picture that you see in your mind, you can choose how you want to frame it. The frames will determine what you feel towards the picture, which empowers you. This is well-known as reframing.

Now, there are many mental techniques you can learn to do this. But I tend to go for simplicity, and simply adopt curiosity in all aspects of life.

In one of the very early posts, Be More Curious Than Afraid, I wrote that one of the most empowering questions I could ask myself in any situation is this, “What else can this mean?”

“What else can this mean?” allows me to see things from alternate points of view. Because of our personal worldviews and preferences, we humans tend to be quite biased whether we admit it or not. By adopting different perspectives, we can see shift the perception, see the bigger picture – the better picture.

One of the biggest values a coach can give to his clients is by offering alternate perspectives instead of giving immediate solutions and advices. Coaching brings longer-lasting empowerment. Coaching boosts the capability of the coachees for the long-term and cause them to be self-generative and independent. By offering advices too early and too easily without stretching the coachees to see the bigger picture, we deny them that empowerment.

Think about your own worldviews, beliefs, attitudes and values, the ones that molded you to be who you are today. Then reflect on the following questions:

Self-Coaching Questions On Your Outlooks

1) What outlooks (perspectives, beliefs, values, ideals) do you currently hold about yourself, your life and work?

2) Where did they come from (or from whom)?

3) Which are valuable to you at this point in your life?

4) Which ones no longer serve you, or you have outgrown them?

5) Which are causing you to play small and not live up to your potential?

6) How can you adopt more empowering outlooks?

7) How can you cultivate more curiosity?

Besides curiosity, here are a few more ‘outlooks’ you can install in your worldview:

Outlook of Gratitude – A true appreciation for life and the many blessings and gifts bestowed upon you. Your ability to give thanks and be grateful will bring much happiness and meaning in whatever that happens.

Outlook of Optimism – A sense of hope and the ability to find the best in people and situations. You will be able to find hidden opportunities in places where average people would have abandoned hope.

Outlook of Compassion – The capacity to empathize and feel for your fellow human being. You listen and understand others better by picturing yourself in their shoes. You will be able to respect yourself and others, and serve the world better with your gifts.

Remember, the outcome you get is determined by your outlook.