Perspective, Courtesy of the Sky

Thursday. If you went out for the Perseids last night, I hope you caught a few. And if you didn’t — tonight is still a peak night, so the invitation stands.

There’s a reason I pair the meteor shower with Thursday’s Hidden Win Inventory this week. Both are about the same skill: adjusting your perspective on purpose.

Lying under a big sky recalibrates your problems. The inventory recalibrates your progress. Both counteract the same default setting — the brain’s habit of zooming in tight on what’s wrong, what’s missing, what’s still undone, until that’s all you can see. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do for yourself is simply zoom out.

So today, zoom out. On the week: what actually got done? On the year: how far have you actually come since January? On the moment: in the full scale of your life, how big is the thing that’s bothering you today, really?

Perspective is free. It’s just rarely the default. Choose it today.

Perspective is free. It’s just rarely the default. Choose it on purpose today.

What looks smaller — or bigger — when you zoom out on your year so far?