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Turn A Challenging Situation Around By Seeing It Differently
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UNUSUAL VISION
Our lives are surrounded with bad experiences and challenging situations.
We could say something to make you FEEL better but that rarely solves anything. What we will do is introduce a strategy that will radically change the outcomes in your life.
Our current situations are framed by the experiences we faced in our past, giving it context or meaning or a frame. Therefore, if you change the frame-the context-the meaning changes instantly.
One of the most effective tools for
personal change is learning how to put the best frames on
any experience. This process is called
reframing.
A Story of Unusual Vision
A touching Pulitzer Prize-winning article by Alice Steinbach illustrates the power of
reframing. It appeared in The Baltimore Sun in 1985 titled, “A Boy of Unusual Vision,” about a
young boy named Calvin Stanley.
Then 10-year-old Calvin rides a bike, plays video games, plays baseball, goes to school,
everything a typical boy his age would do. Except see.
A Story of Unusual Vision
How could this little boy do all these things while many people in the same situation would be paralyzed by depression and just give up?
It was his mother. She took every experience
Calvin has-experiences that others would have
classified as “limitations”-and
REFRAMED them in Calvin’s mind.
She remembers the first day Calvin asked
why he was blind. “I explained he was born
that way and it was nobody’s fault.
He asked, ‘Why me?’ I said, ‘I don’t know why, Calvin. Maybe there’s a
special plan for you.’” Then she sat her son
down and told him, “You’re seeing, Calvin. You’re just using your hands instead of your eyes. And remember,
there’s nothing you can’t do.”
One day, Calvin was sad because he realized he’d never see his mother’s face. But Mrs. Stanley knew what to tell her only child. “I said, Calvin, you can see my face.
You can see it with your hands and by listening to my voice, and you can tell more about me that way than somebody who can use his eyes.’” Calvin wants to become a computer programmer and someday design programs for the blind.
The world is full of Calvins and we need more people who are
adept reframes like Mrs. Stanley.
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