A different perspective

 

The bottom fell out of the bottom drawer of my filing cabinet the other week which meant I couldn't open it. The challenge yesterday was I needed the documents contained in the drawer. The tactic of procrastinating would no longer help.

 

What to do?

 

I emptied the top drawer and tried to get that out hoping to come at the documents from above but it wouldn't budge - no matter what I tried to do.

Suggestions on social media had me considering hammer and screwdriver. Then Jo messaged me "Turn it upside down and then the drawer will open!"

As it happened I only needed to turn it on its side.


 

A reminder that often the simplest solutions come from a different perspective.

What situation in your life may benefit from a different perspective?

Alison Smith
Inspiring change inside and out in procurement

Creativity

I had a play date with Ruan who is two on Saturday. We went to the park to play on the swings and slide and then sat on the local beach. Morph pictured here came along too. 

 

 

More a blog because I wanted to share the great pictures than having anything particularly insightful to share. Although if forced to try to 'inspire change' and relate it to the pictures then I'd suggest they can act as a reminder to have fun and play more. It's certainly one way I know to access a creative mindset. Sitting at your desk may be what you think you 'ought' to be seen to be doing but what is the most effective means of achieving your objective?

 

Alison Smith

Inspiring change in procurement - inside and out

I need to see it to believe it - or do you?

 

I opened my curtains on Monday morning to find that a small oil rig (or parts of it anyway) had appeared in what I describe as my front garden (ie in the view from my house across the Forth to Edinburgh).

 

This morning having heard alarms ringing at 5am ish, as I assume the ship submerged, I was met with this view. On first glance looking as if the ship was sinking. 

 

and even more so here once the 'oil rig' had floated away.

 



It reminded me of a picture I put on Pinterest that showed what looked like the trails of stars as they move around the earth. I said then...

Life like nature is never what it seems. Whilst it might seem as if we're on a static world with the sun revolving around us we know its the other way around. Isn't that what we often do in life and believe its the other person who needs to move position and not us.

Both examples that sometimes what we believe we have the evidence to support might not always be what's happening. As demonstrated in the picture I used in yesterday's blog of me perched on the top of a seemingly dangerous cliff!

Where might you be making the wrong conclusions?

Alison Smith
Inspiring change inside and out in Procurement