203: When You Need to Zoom Out
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What you choose to set the power of your thought on is the lens through which you’ll see the world for a short time, and if you repeat that pattern over and over again, this becomes how you see the world. Where could you zoom out for some perspective?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you're on air with Ella, where we talk motivation, mindset, personal development, basically everything you need |
| 0:21.7 | to get more of what you want and less of what you don't. Let's go. |
| 0:29.9 | Have you ever looked at a picture of yourself that looks pretty good and for some reason |
| 0:33.7 | you decide to zoom in and then you're like, no no no no zoom out zoom out or in reverse |
| 0:41.2 | have you seen a picture of something that's so super zoomed in that you can't tell what it is like it might be |
| 0:47.6 | a cute little ladybug but if you're zoomed in too close you have no idea you have no context for just a |
| 0:53.9 | blurry shiny red thing you have to idea. You have no context for just a blurry, shiny red thing. You have to |
| 0:56.6 | zoom out to give it shape, to give perspective to the thing. Well, today I want to talk to you about |
| 1:01.7 | the power and the necessity of zooming out. Let me tell you a couple of stories to make this make |
| 1:07.6 | sense. You've heard the adage, what you focus on grows, right? It's |
| 1:11.8 | 100% true. Whatever you direct this amazing thing called your brain on, that's what will reside |
| 1:17.7 | top of mind for you. If you watch TV news for three hours, I promise you that you will have a |
| 1:23.1 | totally different perspective than someone who just spent the past three hours in a soup kitchen |
| 1:28.0 | or on a hike in the Alps or in a hospital to welcome a new baby or in a hospital saying |
| 1:33.6 | goodbye to someone they love. Like that's simple, right? To think about it that way. What you choose to |
| 1:38.7 | set the power of your thought on is the lens through which you'll see the world for some period of time. And if you repeat |
| 1:46.0 | that pattern over and over again, then this becomes how you see the world. That's not good or bad. |
| 1:52.5 | It's neutral. It's just science. So how does this relate to the tool I want to talk about today, |
| 1:57.3 | the tool of zooming out? When we focus on a thing, whether we realize it or not, |
| 2:03.4 | it can dominate our landscape. Anyone who's ever experienced addiction or obsession knows this. |
| 2:09.7 | I've been so obsessed with my own health, I say that in quotes, that I viewed everything in my life |
| 2:16.4 | through that lens for way too long. Like I'm out there |
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