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There is a well recognised school of thought that suggest that the world doesn’t actually ‘look’ the way we ‘see’ it.

It’s merely a result of our software processing the information that passes through our hardware (our eyes)

In essence we filter the information that arrives and we create it into a reality that our brain thinks we see, touch and feel. On top of that though life we all create a lens in front of our eyes that distorts, filters and changes the picture we see of the world to create our ‘world view’. This lens is fundamental to our behavior and the way we see the world and is no doubt created from many different sources and moulded through life into many different shapes to create different visions.

But here’s the important thing… the lens doesn’t merely affect the incoming, the lens entirely dictates the outgoing; so although it is like a magnifying glass it is also like a projector lens. What comes of out of us passes through our lens and this is what we project on to the world, this is how we influence others.

At this time of year resolutions come out, thoughts about changing ourselves, dry January, fitness regimes, massive spikes in gym membership and all of that. It is perhaps worth taking a few minutes to think about your lens, where you are getting your incoming information from, who your hero is, who’s influencing you in the discussions you have with other people, the books you read, the movies you watch, professional leaders you admire, colleagues you look to to emulate their work or organisation. It’s these inputs that then influence your output so the people who look up to you and wish to follow you are very closely linked to the inputs. It’s actually a very complicated chain reaction and it starts with the huge responsibility of understanding that you’re in control of the lens at all times. What you post on Facebook or talk to your colleagues about at meetings or say to your children has massive ripple effects all the way across the ‘pond of life’ and many people just refuse or fail to see the cause and effect situation that occurs with this dynamic.

Perhaps think of it this way – at the end of it all, right at the sharp end if the last hour of your life was to teach a lesson to your grandchildren, what you would really want to do would be to set their lens.

Blog Post Number: 821