View your surroundings with fresh eyes: resurrecting potential

Recently, we hosted our daughter for the weekend at our little cabin in the woods. To view the space through her eyes for the first time reminded me of the reasons my husband and I fell in love with the mountain retreat when we, too, first laid eyes on it. Yet it’s too easy to forget its potential when confronted with its flaws. Unfortunately, that mentality can cross over into our everyday lives. We may entertain the best idea that excites and energizes us. But once we start to pick it apart, we begin to focus on the holes and inconsistencies and forget the promise. That can happen when I’m working on a story, forcing me to set it aside for another day. And when I return to the drawing board, often I’m able to resurrect my earlier vision to make it even better. That happened with my latest Woman’s World story—Rainy Day Fairy Tale—on sale now.

What do you need to view with fresh eyes?

Photo by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash.