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This is post #1 in my blog series called “Uncovering Our Blind Spots in Life and Business.” Please stay tuned for more. I hope this series will inspire you to see yourself from another perspective that maybe you have not previously seen before. Also, the goal is to help us improve who we are in life and business and to achieve new heights in our personal and professional development.
To be fully transparent (no pun intended), I lost sight in my right eye in 2008 due to a detached retina that happened over time. No accident or injury caused the detached retina. It was years of delaying an instructed visit to an ophthalmologist because I was so “busy.” My lack of attention to getting my eyes checked by a specialist (Ophthalmologist) as I was instructed to do, caused irreparable damage to my sight.
Although I had one of the best surgeons in the area perform the eye surgery, I have been unable to regain sight in my eye to this day. This has obviously impaired my peripheral vision. I had to learn how to adjust my actions to accommodate the loss of sight. I have literally bumped my head on occasions when I failed to remember to back up and look before moving. Although I have lost partial physical sight, I continue to gain insight into myself year after year.
This newfound awareness is what this blog series, “Uncovering Blind Spots in Life and Business” is all about. But what are blind spots, you ask? Here’s my definition: Blind Spots are aspects of our personality, behaviors, actions, emotions, and intellect harboring unconscious biases that obstruct our perspectives or influence how we see ourselves and others.
I believe blind spots are a universal problem that can have a significant impact if not addressed. Yet, I am unaware of any university or college that educates extensively on this topic. We are all aware of self-improvement courses, workshops, and conferences that cover a myriad of subjects to help our personal advancement.
For the record, I am not a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on this topic, but I have garnered years of wisdom and knowledge about blind spots that have helped me become a better person. So why not share these findings and experiences with my brothers and sisters and help you invest in areas that we all struggle with — sometimes unknowingly?
The easy solution for uncovering blind spots is to have people in our lives whom we trust—and are sometimes honest to a fault—tell us what we don’t want but need to hear. Another, perhaps more difficult answer, is being vulnerable and honest enough with ourselves to accept their feedback and make corrections that will improve some aspect of our lives.
We’ll delve into these solutions and more along this journey of Uncovering Blind Spots in Life and Business. Keep reading to see if you can relate, or not, to some of life’s most common, but challenging situations. Then maybe we can become more than the status quo and change the man or woman in the mirror!
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We don’t see what we don’t see! We don’t know what we don’t know! Therefore, we cannot change the things in our lives that could propel us to the next level!
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