Video Summary:

When we go into new experiences, we tend to focus on the thing that we're familiar with. We focus like a photograph that uses a focused SLR camera where part of the photograph is in perfect focus, and then as you move away from that it starts to get blurry.

I'm really interested in the blurry part that surrounds the thing we are focused on. I'm gonna call this the periphery. In this periphery, there are things, people, and experiences that are happening that we may not have noticed or paid attention to before. And these experiences in the periphery are really rich in possibilities.

My challenge to you this week is to explore the periphery. As a practice, when you go into an experience notice the thing you naturally focus on and then stop. Ask yourself, "What else is here?" Then just start looking around and noticing what other people and experiences are happening around you that you have not seen before.

If you're like me, you'll start meeting a diversity of people and having a diversity of experiences. And then you can allow new parts of yourself to come out to interact with them.