Friday, September 4, 2009

What do you see when you look out your window?

I wanted to share a little story with all of you so please bare with me. Last week, as I was getting a tour of my new work, I went upstairs to meet some of the people I will be working with. The person who was giving me the tour showed me one office and I immediately took a look outside of their window. What I saw was an amazing place to go for a walk or run or just a place to get away and do some thinking. I kept thinking that if I organize a walking or running clinic then this would be a great place to take people. There were so many trees and it all looked so peaceful from where I was looking.

I kept staring out the window until finally the person who I was with caught me and wondered why I had this huge smile on my face. She said that what I was staring at was a cemetary but ALL I saw was opportunity.

The point of my story is that we all have a choice as to how we want to look at things. Where I saw opportunity to create something positive, this person had no idea of that. I hope that you have discover some new opportunities in your own lives that other people don't see. I actually feel bad for people who have no passion in their lives. They remind me of the feather in the Forrest Gump movie. Floating around going nowhere in particular.