I absolutely love being safely up high.

When I was little, I loved to sit at the very top of the climbing frame in our back garden (strangely, especially when it was raining and I could sit under an umbrella!).

Some of my favourite holidays have been in the mountains in the summer.

When I imagine where my future self lives, she has a wide-open view.

Anywhere with a bit of height and a big sky calms me down and opens me up. It gives me a beautiful sense of perspective. I can see things more clearly.

I keep this card close by to remind me of that feeling.

It encourages me to take a step back and see the bigger picture when I’m feeling stuck.

It reminds me that taking a ‘metaview’ can be a really useful coaching tool to bring in to a conversation.

So how can it be useful for you?

When we are feeling too close to something - a situation, a decision, a choice - it can feel hard to see it clearly. We can be stuck in the detail, with our questions and thinking pointed in the wrong direction.

When this happens we need to create some distance between us and it, to create some perspective.

One approach is to imagine yourself lifting up and looking down at the situation from a helicopter view. You can picture the whole landscape, and see where what you have been stuck on fits in.

What do you see from up here?

What feels different, or new, from this perspective?

It can be even better if you move physically too. Stand up, take a stretch and look down at what you have been doing or thinking about.

Simplifying changing position changes our energy and can shake us out of our stuckness.

Where could you use a fresh perspective?

And how can you use height to your advantage?

Wishing you all a wonderful week,