I would like you to imagine sitting in a room looking up at a tiled ceiling.

And you notice that one tile is missing, just one.

What would you concentrate your vision on?

What would you look at the most?

The answer of course is the missing tile.

Now, that's fine for ceilings.

In fact, it's actually good because we can replace the ceilings missing tile and once

again have a perfect ceiling.

Things after all, can be perfect.

But this doesn't apply to life.

Most of what is missing in our lives or what we think is missing cannot be replaced.

Unlike a ceiling, life can never be made perfect.

For that reason, concentrating on the missing tiles in your life is a big problem.

Let me give you the example that taught me this great lesson about what I call the missing

tile syndrome.

A bald man once said to me, you know, Dennis, whenever I walk into a room with people, all

I see is hair.

When I heard this, I immediately realized that in this regard, this man sees the world

completely differently from how I do.

Because I have all my hair when I walk into a room, I don't even notice hair.

It's not a missing tile for me.

But for this person, hair is what he sees.

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