Secrets of Success: Seeing things from another perspective

Hi Everyone,

Well I finally got to see one of my favorite neighborhoodsfrom the other side. I'm blessed to live in a communityon the water - beautiful Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.Although I don't live on the water - yet - I do my daily walking there. And yesterday, I got to see it from the other side.

My brother brought his boat over to a family 4th of Julyparty and took us out into the bay past all the housesthat I often wonder about. And it got me to wondering about how often we don't get a chance to see things fromanother perspective.

* Driver cutting in front of you? What was going on atthat moment in time for them? What was the chance thatthey cut you off intentionally? Better yet, how often have we been the ones doing the cutting off?
* Family disagreement? We wonder why they can't see itour way when perhaps we should put ourselves in theirshoes to see how they might see it.
* Someone not return a text message, call, email or IM?How often do we jump to conclusions - usually negative ones - rather than putting ourselves in their livesand trying to understand why?

Two things come to mind.1.Dr. Wayne Dyer who says, "Stop looking for reasons tobe offended."
2. The activity I used to have my Strategies of Successstudents do - ask "How else could I see this?"

Next time you can't figure out why someone did what theydid, maybe it's not a bad idea to try to see it from their perspective. Things look quite different fromthere.