In photography, we adjust and manipulate the lens and change the focus until we create the version of the image we look to capture.  You choose the lens—sometimes you have to change the zoom or the angle.    The same is said about life.  We choose what we focus on.  We can zoom in tightly and focus only on what’s in front of us, or we can take a wide lens and see the big picture.  Sometimes the moment is rough and we feel deep in it, like we are held under while everything else around us thrives.  Other times we are the zen, the focus while there is chaos around.  We choose to see the beauty or the burden of the moment.  We’ve spoken about choosing our thoughts and this is the core of the concept: shift our focus and we shift our thoughts on what we are seeing.  Sometimes we are too close to the source to see what the big picture is so our decision doesn’t encompass all the options or information.  Sometimes we are pressured by outside sources because they benefit from us making an uninformed decision when we don’t have that information. 

The world we currently operate in benefits when we don’t have the information or when it pressures us to choose with limited information.  We are often forced to make snap decisions because of how quickly this world moves and we are trained that if we don’t move now we are going to miss out.  That’s an unnecessary pressure we place on ourselves and that we allow society to place on us and that time pressure isn’t true.  If we master the ability to slow down and really observe where we are and make sure we see the whole picture, we give ourselves the opportunity to choose differently.  We are able to see the bigger picture and make a better decision.  The world does indeed move quickly, but it ironically gives us all the time we need.  Think about those moments of aligned inspiration and creativity—the time flows differently there, suddenly moving quickly but slowly all at the same time.  It is all the time we need.  We can decide if we are moving fast or slow and we can set the limit/boundary on our need to make better decisions by taking our time.

This whole life is one magnificent game where we get to create all of the events and things we want in our lives.  We were given a giant playground with all the materials and resources we could ever need and a mind that allows us to take those things and turn them into something else.  We were given ideas and thought and emotion and love and purpose and all of those things are infinitely more important to focus on than any manufactured crap that is put out there designed to make us forget who we are or think a certain way.  We choose the course of our lives through love and patience and honoring who we are.  We choose what we experience through what we feel and how we feel influences how we see the world.  We can always choose to be down or depressed about the bad things that happen—because sometimes bad things do happen.  Or we can choose to be empowered and take up the mantle of our purpose and enjoy creating the life we are meant to have—we can see the joy of being the calm in the storm and all of the doors that open for us. Choose your lens.