The same situation looks completely different depending on how you’re looking at it. This tool won’t change what happened. But it might change what you see.
Most of the time we’re stuck, we’re not stuck in the situation itself. We’re stuck in one way of looking at it. Cognitive reframing, a technique used widely in coaching and therapy, is simply the practice of deliberately trying on other frames. Not to minimize what’s hard, but to find what a single perspective might be hiding.
Write out what you’re dealing with. Then see it through six different lenses.
