#Bigger Picture

[wayti-blog]

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet

[earthjrnl]

Reminding myself: You must live a life to paint a true emotional portrait of it in your art. It's not just about the creating--its about telling the truth. The truth breathes. It moves people--stirs souls. None of this is in vain. The pain, the disappointment, the heartbreak, the rejection, the boredom, the loss--all of it will serve a purpose in the context of a larger story. You feel a little lost because you don't know the ending yet (and there are no spoilers), but you will get through it one moment at a time and the sun will rise for you again.

[darabeatha]

I want to reblog an intimacy meme too but then I think; can I truly write paragraphs of yearning and desire today-

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Teamwork challenges & poor communication at work

I think what I'm finding most challenging at my job right now is the constant presumption from my colleagues (especially managers) that if I'm asking or checking something, it must be because I myself have zero understanding of it and need to be led like a child, rather than because I am either flagging something on behalf of, or asking a strategic question on behalf of, someone else, given that my entire role in the team is to be the person that connects different teams with each other so we don't miss anything.

Today for example. There's an issue where, because one of the managers wasn't careful with her language, she told the technical team to 'ignore all requests from that client because we don't have the budget to do that work', and they took her at her word and have been ignoring with no response or explanation ANY requests, emails, or phonecalls from that client for the last 2 months.

What that manager meant to communicate was "if that client sends you a request, please let them know, politely, that we can't do that right now because we haven't got the budget." But that wasn't what she said, and she hasn't checked up until now.

So I checked, and I identified the issue, and, because she's a manager and I'm not right now - in my old job I was, and would simply have given the command - I asked if she could verify that she wanted them to send a message like that when a request comes through.

Well, instead she's come back telling me that I shouldn't be dealing with any requests from them because I'm not in the technical team, and the technical team know what to do.

And I'm just sitting here wondering if she even read my message because clearly the technical team do not know what to do, because they haven't been doing it, and that's either their fault or your fault, and if they're ignoring client requests, who does that ultimately end up harming?

ALL of us. Our company. YOUR boss. YOU, for miscommunicating in the first place. YOUR STAFF, for ignoring a client for MONTHS.

I am here giving you an out for what's about to become a BIG problem down the line when that client starts telling all their contacts that we don't communicate and don't respond to work offers or provide any service, and can't be contacted AT ALL, if you don't sort it now, and your take is instead "stay in your lane, don't worry about it"?

And if I go past her and do it anyway? The company reputation gets saved, sure. But I probably then end up getting in trouble for undermining a manager!

[cloudydaze24]

Smoking thinking about a bunch of shit.

Food for thought:

They really don't wanna give an entire nation of people nothing to lose. 🤔

Be easy tho 😂

[blabbershere]

[ohhigh-imhi]

My dear, you are pushing away the blessing because you don’t feel worthy.

Why do you think you received it in the first place?

[thejackofalltrades42069]

Improve your social media and life experience.

I’ll share a few insights from podcast Modern Wisdom, a talk with Gurwinder Bhogal named “Psychology lessons to understand people better” and add my personal twist.

Mostly that podcast is about social media and how people in social media tend to act.

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1. Your social media feed can be hell.

Most posts in social media come from people being impulsive, usually people aren’t thinking about what they post, we just think of something or take a picture and upload it right away. This makes most people’s social media feed awful (we’re mostly seeing people arguing, complaining, people wishing for possessions or vacations, for money, senseless memes, and so on).

Because we tend to behave like others, and to do things that people around us are doing, in social media we can easily be seen as idiots, and we can consider that most people we follow are idiots because of what they post (especially when we don’t know the people we’re following), this happens because most posts are just unplanned impulsive posts. We’re creating ourselves an awful daily bias when we keep seeing random news feed on our cellphones and computers.

Social media can lead to an awful mindset and overall unsatisfaction.

How to avoid this?

We can easily filter all social media choosing whose posts we want to see and whose posts we don’t want to see (you can keep people as friends even after muting them, your best friend’s posts might be awful even if you like them). The algorithm was created to show things we want to see, but if we can identify things as completely useless, and as damaging for our mental health, it’s always a good idea to start filtering out many people’s posts.

Try to have a vision of the bigger picture, though.

This can however lead us to just seeing the same information always and creating a negative thing, a constant confirmation bias, it can be countered by changing the algorithm on purpose, check sources you’d never check, there are some ways to do this; searching for people, videos, books, or podcasts that we believe we’re going to dislike, and checking them out, seeing those videos, listening to those podcasts, or reading news from completely new places, there are apps that give you random news daily. Other way I think of this is asking acquaintances (mostly the ones we tend to disagree with) to suggest a video or someone they follow on social media and checking out new different information we believe we’re going to disagree with, it’s likely we’ll find useful and new stuff out there (different perspectives to bias ourselves from different sources), this could even be done with movies, watch a movie you think you’ll dislike from time to time, you’ll be surprised.

This could be applied outside of social media, hanging out and talking with people we don't talk to often, or ever.

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2. If you have a talk or debate, agree on the definitions first.

Ever had a talk or argument about something where it seems you’re talking about something completely different from the other person? It’s vital to learn the definitions and to agree on them in order to have a useful talk with someone else, if this is not done, you and the other person can be thinking about completely different things and having a strange conversation that leads nowhere.

When you want to have a meaningful talk, it’s useful to do this too, agree first about definitions, say what you think something means, hear the other person, understand each other, then move forward with the conversation.

Additionally to this, it’s always good to really try to understand definitions, we sometimes are not very sure what we ourselves are talking about, and it’s hard to express our ideas unto others.

Try to always understand and agree on definitions.

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3. Happiness.

Triple check that your happiness doesn’t depend on things you buy or things you will buy, possessions will only make people happy temporarily, believing that possessions and things like traveling will make you happy will only make you be more unsatisfied and less happy overtime.

We have the tendency to always want more, but perhaps it’s much better to find happiness in the little things and trying to enjoy the present more, without always trying to think how happy you’ll be in the future because of “x” or “y” thing is going to happen, or because you’re buying this or that thing. The present is what matters the most (for sure, plan for a better future too, make sacrifices to achieve things).

It’s great to have small goals that we can achieve overtime, like learning a language, or why not, saving money to buy a new car (because of its usefulness, not only because it’s a new car).

Extra note here, we shouldn’t spend too much time dwelling in the past, or thinking how things could’ve been. When we spend too much time in social media we tend to bias ourselves into thinking about this, and about the future, because that bias makes us want to have things that other people are sharing (because we’re constantly being reminded about it from other people’s posts).

To avoid this we can try to get busy with work/ studies and doing hobbies or things we enjoy. Using less social media must always be an objective too (IMO).

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4. The solutions we’re used to might not be the best.

Ever had pain in the wrist from using the keyboard and mouse too much? Well, the usual mouse and the usual keyboard most people use aren’t ergonomic at all; there are some good options out there people don’t even know exist like using a pen tablet instead of a mouse, or a vertical or trackball mouse.

I personally use a pen tablet as a mouse 50% of the time, it's much more ergonomic for the wrist.

This idea can thought about or be applied in infinite ways.

For problem solving, it’s good to do some research about solutions to problems we have or to things we do daily that we didn’t know even existed. For example, buying something easy to use like an air fryer for cooking, or cooking more using the microwave or a toaster oven (a toaster oven can be used to cook meat with no effort).

As far as new gadgets go, personally I believe that the invention of electronic ink readers is completely amazing, instead of having 50 books that you don’t even know where to store anymore, you can just have a tiny device like a Kindle with thousands of books in it.

An example some people never thought about, if they don’t want to be distracted by their phone at work, then can use “do not disturb” mode so it only rings with phone calls, tell their friends and family to only call them in case of emergencies, and put the phone in a drawer away from them, or even better, in a different room, or have a colleague at work keep it away from them.

Last example, for people like me who often want to take notes on the go, there are apps where we can dictate whatever and have the voice convert into text, this might seem like a silly simple thing, but it’s amazing, and it saves time and effort.

Better solutions can be found all the time, and for anything, sometimes we just need to invest some time into researching and having better time and resources management.

Learning new things and from different sources makes us more creative and better at problem-solving.

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Conclusion (summary).

Stop having a hellish awful bias from your social media, improve it or just stop using them and do something better with that time and energy.

Agree on definitions, know what you’re talking about, make sure others do too.

Don’t rely on possessions and money to be happy.

Take the time to improve different aspects of your life, one by one.

[truthseeker-starseed]

We all live in our little world & are blind of the bigger picture that is taking place. If we would look outside ourselves we would see patterns in what is happening in the world. Sure I admit I look at the economic of the world, the media what they are preaching, what the education system is teaching, the conflicts that are happening around the world, the scientific advancements, weather, what mind control techniques that are being put in place, the lies that are being sprouted on, & so many other areas. I guess being analytical & very observant of all matter of things in life can be every rewarding because you become aware of the pain of the world.

[ineedfairypee]

You don’t need every piece of the puzzle to see the bigger picture 🧩

[sparenickel-blog]

The crazy thing is, it's easy to drown yourself in their paint when there's so much of it. And there is SO much of it. It's overwhelming. An oppressive collective of "things just are this way" and "get used to it" and "nobody cares". It's like every drop stands to defy your entire being. And they want you to be a part of it, too, because then you would be just like them, and you would be proving them right.

The reality of giving in is far worse. You don't just lose yourself, you lose the very idea of caring about anything and everything. When everyone else's ideals become your own, you make everything they desire your own desires, and everything else, everything you liked about anything to begin with, just kind of gets cast aside as "unnecessary" or "a waste of time".

It's like tunnel vision. If something doesn't fit the narrative, then it isn't worth having. Such as it is that we find ourselves unhappy with our lives when we strained ourselves of color, what made us US, just so we could fit in and live our lives without friction or drawing attention to ourselves.

Fitting the mold of society's standards is one thing, but when you lose sight of yourself in the bigger picture because who you are is what everyone else thinks you *should* be, that is when you become truly lost.

Don't lose yourself to it. Don't give in. Remember the you that loves and love it back, because you're the only one that can.

caring about things is cool being passionate is cool being earnest is cool being genuine is cool being compassionate is cool

[theaenetworks]

Actualizing your future sums up the struggle of years which you have been on constant hard work to make it happen, that’s the bigger picture behind it. When you conceive the vision, what comes next is to get it through the mud you have to be in for it and give every ounce of you to get your vision through the rain. It is about finding your purpose when you discover it, you can take it on a ride and then life will begin to have a meaning towards the journey of achieving your goals and serve as light where darkness resides.

In this journey you’re going to take losses, it is inevitable you can’t escape that, it is moments you start to prepare ahead of time, you have to be ready for the rainy days when you overcome it, there are always going to be sun to shine, on your time of putting in work and chasing your dreams, it is all squared for you and you need to make every moment worth shining light in everything you do, take chances professionally and don’t be afraid to go outside the box and think outside the box, in making decisions you have to trust your gut hoping to figure everything out.

Be committed to your vision that’s where you anchored you being, what you do in life defines who you are, do something worth making a difference and shine lights in the life of others, you have to be ready all times you don’t do it once, it is all the time and you continue to keep the dreams alive. The vision is on you, you push it and determine where it is going to lead you, but once you’re resilient and relentless it is matter of time before you achieve your dream and reach to the climax of your vision.

One day you will wake up with your dreams in your face, if you trust the process and continue walking away with the pain. Keep your vision sailing that’s the only to live up your dreams, fight for it and take possession don’t let it slip away, where you want to serve a purpose and shine lights in the things that matter the most, you need to stay rock solid that’s only way to get hold of your dreams and inspire everyone who believes in the dream, to be able to watch this vision grow and fulfill true meaning of its creed, is the best satisfaction.

https://anthonyemmanuel.com/the-bigger-picture-to-get-your-vision-through-the-rain/

#bigpicture #BigPictureThinking #BigPictureMindset #biggerandbetter #biggerpicture

[brenda-walsh-ministries]

"God sees the big picture and if we could see the end from the beginning, we would not want it any other way than God's way for His plan is always the best plan. When you believe in God, you gain a complete trust in Him." - Brenda Walsh

[markmcole]

When God Leads Us the Long Way: Growing Stronger for Life’s Battles

In Exodus 13:17, we read a fascinating insight into how God guides His people: “When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, ‘If the people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.’” At first glance, it may seem odd…

[tears-that-heal]

That's truly a fascinating thought. 🤔💡

My honest first thought was "Gratitude". It is only through these contrasting experiences in life, both of light and darkness, so we can learn what it is to be grateful, and it helps us see the "silver lining" in every situation. 😌

[bipolartwentysomething]