97% fat free or 3% fat?

What is your lens? 

How do you look at life? 

Challenges? 

Successes? 

What is the underlying dialogue, or tone of voice, that runs through your mind? 

A funny example or reminder of this from Wednesday this week 

Recently I upgraded from my trusty iPhone 6 

I put a screen protector on the new one 

It’s been on for about 6 weeks now 

Something didn't seem right, but stuck with it 

It was a bit bubbly at the top, with a bubble over the camera, the ends overhanging a bit 

It’s already taken some damage, scratches, smudges, which made the screen look a bit dim 

Face time calls not that clear due to the bubble 

Yesterday I took it to the shop to get a new one put on properly

The vendor laughed

He peeled back the protective plastic cover that protected the protector 

Revealing a crystal clear, sharp, untouched screen 

Video calls are crisp 

The image clear and vibrant 

Colour popping 

It looks brand new 

I realised it was a funny anecdote for life

Literally, the lens that you look at ‘stuff’ through impacts your perspective 

Whether that is a protective lens on your phone

Or the lens of your eyes and mind looking at the world 

Daniel Kahneman discusses it in his book ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ 

How you look at and frame things impacts your decisions making 

97% fat free is more appealing than 3% fat  90% chance of success with an operation is better than a

10% chance of death 

With any challenge you meet, your perception of it, or the lens you look at it through determines how you

approach it 

Starting a property portfolio:

A big daunting challenge that could end in failure? 

Or 

A positive step and learning opportunity to building wealth and income, for life, in the future? 

Upping sticks as an expat and moving to a new country:

Uncertainty of what the future holds and fear of losing your current friends

Or 

A chance to experience a new culture, learn, make new friends 

Buying a holiday home in Asia? 

A big risk as what if you don’t use it or your plans change 

Or

Potentially something that could create amazing memories for you your family for years to come?

Pretty simple examples, but the situation is the same for each of the three

The difference is in your mentality, mindset and the lens you choose to look at the situation through 

This, I think, also ties in with a comment I heard on a podcast earlier in the week

“There are two types of people in the world, those that let life happen to them, and those that happen to

life” 

Those that happen to life are the people with a positive frame, a go-getter attitude

They put their will onto the world, not the other way around 

No one will ‘do’ property for you (bar us!)

So?

Go get out there and make it happen

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Have a great weekend ahead,

Callum