Perspective and Lens Approach

As a form of research that has gained more popularity in the recent years is the strategy as practice research. This is something that I am currently working on and hence it gives me a little knowledge to share about practices and lens approach and how your life is everything about your perspective.

As the title suggests, a 'Lens Approach' is a way of looking at things from a zoom in- zoom out approach. This means, gaining the ability and the skills to observe a situation, a person, a practice, a religion, a business, a product anything that needs facilitation for existing and growing, you look at it from a lens of observation. In this observation you shall sometimes zoom into the nuances of the things, and sometimes zoom out to see the bigger picture.

Businesses, and likely life, does not work in a top-down manner. They function in a haphazard, intense, highly sporadic and sometimes in a piling on pattern. There are not definitive successes and failures in life, there is decisions and consequences of these decisions, as my brother once told me.

Likewise, everything that you are investing your living energy in is an experience. What seems so grand in the scheme of the universe, when zoomed in, most times is the mundanity of life. What seems so shattering for some fleeting instances of your life, may become a solid foundation and building block of your life.

The world has seen many businesses that have been revived from the brink of obsoletion, for the way one person looks at it from a different perspective. You cannot run behind a one stop shop solution for all your aims, dreams, worries, problems and achievements, carrying them all in one bag.

Learn to use the lens approach in life. When things get too easy zoom in to find the little ways you can find more potential towards growth. When things get too tough and break you from inside zoom out to look at the other things surrounding you that you have built, survived and are supporting you today. This could be a house, a business, friendships, a partner, children, love, family, a bank balance. Whatever floats the boat when it feels like it is sinking.

And remember this is all perspective. What perspective you look any situation, any decision, any consequence from is what becomes the reality of your life. Be mindful, be gracious, be kind to self and others, and be hopeful in your perspectives about people whose stories you do not know.