Change Your Perception, Change Your Life

In this episode, I share how watching a recent documentary completely shifted my perception of someone I thought I already understood — and how that moment reminded me of a deeper truth: nothing changes until we change the way we see.

Also, we explore how perception shapes our emotions, our relationships, and the way we experience our lives. When we shift from negative to positive, from assumption to understanding, from fear to gratitude… our entire inner world transforms.

Lastly, I’ll walk you through two simple practices to help you reset your perspective from the inside out!

This episode is part of our Summer Reset series, guiding you back to clarity, gratitude, and the empowered woman you’re becoming.

Transcript

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Hey girl, welcome back to another episode of the More Than Enough Podcast where we enable, empower, and encourage you to transform your life by working on your inner so that it can express on the outer. My name is Alexandra. I am your host, and in this week's episode, we're going to speak about how changing your perspective and your perception changes your life. So I wanted to give a personal example of something that recently happened to myself. I had gone to a movie theater and saw this new remake, remake of a music, excuse me, a musical performer known as, you know, Michael Jackson. And I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but I felt so convicted because growing up, I had a certain perception about Michael Jackson due to myself growing up toward the latter ender portion of his life. So I didn't know too much background about him as a person. I knew of his music and things like that. So after watching this cinema movie, it encouraged me to dig a little bit deeper into his life. And so I did some research and found some things out. And it really reset my perspective on him, not just as a musician, but as an individual, you know, as a man. And um that really helped me to realize how many other areas of my life I'm have a certain perception because maybe I've seen like a snapshot of something, and but I haven't seen the full picture of a certain thing. And so with that, nothing really changed about Michael Jackson, like Michael Jackson's Michael Jackson, obviously, his legacy is his legacy, but I've realized that it was actually me that changed. My perception changed of him, and because of that, um, my entire perception about him as a person changed. And so I wanted to go into how perception can create experience. So a lot of times we have these experiences in life and we have certain perceptions that go with them. It could be old stories, old assumptions, or inheritant beliefs. And so when we shift our perception, the situation doesn't necessarily change, but it's actually us that change. We change internally, and then our life begins to transform externally. So if a simple shift in perception of how we could see another person, so like for me, for seeing Michael Jackson, imagine what it could do for how we can see our own lives. So even today, I had an experience to where my perception of myself was career-wise a certain thing, and I was so locked into that perception of myself, and but I'm growing toward a different career path. And so I was actually using a little bit of AI, and it convicted me to say, you need to stop seeing yourself as this old career, you are this new career, like let go of that image. And it was such a weight lifted off me that I just I can't even explain it. Like I felt different, I felt lighter. I was like, you know what? This is actually true. Like, I'm no longer the career that I used to be, I'm no longer the woman I used to be. I need to stop seeing myself in that light and start seeing myself in the new light of who I am now. So that connects with the whole Michael Jackson story too. Um, and I had to also realize that in a lot of situations, it could be difficult in the day-to-day aspects. And a lot of times we could focus on what's not seemingly going right for us, kind of like the analogy of a battery. Um, there's both a positive and a negative to a battery, right? And a lot of times we could start off with the negatives. Um, we wake up, we see that our environment is the same, nothing's changing, nothing is going the way that we want it to go for our near future. And so one thing I want to implore you to do is to change that perspective to more of the positive side of the battery, to say, okay, so for example, if you're feeling like, oh, I have to get up, I have to go to this job that I don't like, and I have to deal with these people, these managers, um, I have to do with these family members, whatever the case may be, I would implore you to start having a different mindset first thing in the morning. And instead of saying, I have to, I have to, I have to, maybe you say, I get to, right? I get to go up and provide service to this employer, and I get to earn income from it that a lot of people can't earn the certain income from. Some people, you know, as you are probably aware of, don't even earn the income that you earn around the world. Some people don't have the family that you have. Some people would love to have, you know, family members that they come home to that you have that you're taking advantage of. So I would implore you to start looking and harvest the good. Um, if you want to start small, I would even say, just honestly being so grateful and thankful for just the gift of life. Thank, you know, I call them God. Thank God that you're living, you're breathing, you have your body, you have your capabilities, you have your health. You can go out and explore this beautiful world, you know, because a lot of people, you know, that wake up, they have health issues and they need assistance. Some people wake up and there's nobody there with them, you know, and a whole bunch of other things. So even if you have to look for small things in the day, like if you're outside, you see a beautiful flower, you know, just say, Thank God for this beautiful flower. You see a beautiful bird, you know, it's summertime. Just say, you know what, thank you, God, for gifting me the ability to see this beautiful bird, because not everybody, you know, has their sights. And I know it sounds very dramatic and drastic, and maybe I am taking a little bit far, but it's so, so, so true. You have to genuinely be grateful for the small things in life, um, no matter how small it might seem, because a lot of things we take for granted, um, other people are not gifted with. So I would implore you, whenever you first wake up in the morning, an exercise you can do to transform your life from the inside out is to do what a lot of people call a gratitude power, maybe five minutes, to where you sit down. You could either think about it or you can write it out. But at least when you first wake up in the morning, write out three things that you're grateful for, whatever comes to mind, and really sit with it and feel the gratitude that you have for either that thing, that person, whatever the case may be, you know. Um, I would really implore you to do that. And you would be surprised at how much different your life and your day goes about just from that simple little hack. Another thing I would say is a practical exercise is to rearrange one room in your house. So when you change your environment, your mind is going to shift also. So a room that you're comfortable seeing with, a lot of times we see our furniture in the same place and we feel like we're coming home to the same environment. But if you just rearrange this piece of furniture, maybe move, you know, a couch the other side of the room, add a plant, clear one corner that you mean and clean out, um, you would see how the energy shifts and how you shift with it. So that's what I implore you to do as a physical act of transformating, transforming, excuse me. And with that, I wanted to say as an end for this week's episode, your life doesn't change when everything around you changes. Your life changes when you change the way you see it. Perception is power, and you hold it. So go focus on that positive today, this week. Stop thinking about the negative and see how your life will be transformed. Thank you so much for listening to this week. I hope you have an amazing week, and I will see you all in the next week's episode.