6 Life Hacks that make you wise.

One faithful morning, I was trying to journal on my iPad, and I noticed that my phone screen started blinking. I quickly shifted my full gaze on the phone to grasp the intensity of the blinking, (a lot of money thoughts have started rushing through my head), and guess what? I found out that the phone was not blinking. I was perplexed, I continued with my iPad leaving me to gaze at my phone with a one-sided look and again, my phone screen started blinking.

So, it caught my full attention and I decided to focus on it. I started to experiment. I covered my left eye to view the phone with my right eye; here the screen was stable. I swapped to view the phone with my left eye while covering my right eye and the phone screen was blinking. I opened my two eyes and look… The screen stood still like a rock. With a deep sigh, it dawned on me that my left eye was the one blinking, I picked up my phone and booked an appointment with my optician right away.

From this story, I will be highlighting 6 tips that when you begin to apply in your everyday life, you will have less friction with people and overall, you will be perceived as wise.

1. Pay attention to the things that matter: When you feel/see something that you are not pleased with, focus your attention on that thing and solve it.
2. The assumption is the lowest level of wisdom: Don’t make assumptions, investigate before getting to conclusions.
3. Take responsibility for your actions: It’s easy for us to point accusing fingers at the other party, but chill, you might be the culprit like I was quick to label my phone as faulty when it was my eyes.
4. Respect other people’s Perspectives: The side you are viewing determines your perspective or what you see, and your perspective might not always be right. To you, it can be 6 while another, it is 9, learning to see things from other people’s point of view.
5. Have a good support system, and collaborate with others: In doing this, you will be leveraging your weakness on their strength, remember, when I gazed at my phone with my two eyes, the screen stood still. Partner with people that minimize your error.
6. In conflict resolution, allow a second opinion: In conflicting situations; give room for the benefit of the doubt, it might not be what you think, but how will you know if you don’t ask or search?

Let’s conclude with these Quotes; “what you focus on, gets the fastest result”, “Your Perspective is not all it is to live” and “Before you act, decide or finalize on any matter, investigate”. Cheers!

© Layinka Dare-Akanni.