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Happy Monday!

What office drama are you facing this week? What’s your role in it? Is this the role you always play?

Try something different this week: suspend judgment.

Of course this sounds easier than it is since our minds are trained judging machines. Whether with people, prices, products or behavior – we automatically assign a meaning to everything and categorize things as “good” or “bad.”

Judging is a hard habit to change – especially when we think we are right.

A tool for shifting this habit is to never believe that your story (or any story) is the whole truth.

Like the blind men and the elephant, our experience is simply our interpretation of what we are seeing, touching, feeling, observing – one limited view among many limited views.

A few months ago my friend posted this video of the “hollow mask” optical illusion on her Facebook page. The video shows how our minds make things up. We see something that is not there and even knowing that it is an optical illusion doesn’t override the conditioning.

Be aware of this habit and know that as real and all encompassing as your story seems – it’s an optical illusion.

For practice, take something that has happened around the office recently. Notice how all the talking we do and our analysis of cause and effect – of who, what, where, why and how – gradually coalesces multi-faceted reality into a single “this is what happened” storyline.

And then we become fixed on this version of the story as reality.

Let go of your story this week. Suspend judgment.