And how a change in mindset is the key to unleashing it!

When you look around your environment, what does your mindset show you?

Ate Millennial zoned out on her phone.

Kuya Lazada riding sweaty and tired.

Lola looking frail and old.

I see that, too-

Because that’s the way we’ve been trained: to see only what’s on the outside. 

But what if we looked upon the world from an entirely different mindset? 

What if we looked at Ate Barista and saw infinite potential radiating from within?

What if we met Lolo and perceived the timeless light in his eyes?

What if we shook hands with Kuya Janitor and felt his humility?

Seeing the greatness in each other can unlock that which is great within ourselves- and all it takes is a change in mindset. A change in perception.

The truth is, we do this all the time.

With Ate Artista

With Kuya Business

And with Ma'am/Sir Foreigner.

We celebrate their greatness because of their outward beauty, their accolades or their status- and why not? But what if our real superpower lay in seeing that same greatness in EVERYONE?

What if we took our celebrity culture and cast the same light from the movie screens to the streets, and from the five-star resorts to the slums.

Our ability to perceive greatness in a few, hints at our capacity to see it in the many. And that's why Filipinos are primed for greatness. Because if we can perceive greatness in Kuya Puti, perhaps we can see it Kuya Grab. And if we can see it in Kuya Grab, maybe...just maybe...we can see it in ourselves.

CHALLENGE TIME

So here’s a challenge that will stir the greatness within you:

Choose someone who appears in your life today. It could be your partner, your colleague, the Grab driver or a homeless person on the street. Without saying any words, see if you can perceive them at their best.

If that person is sick, perceive their wellness.

If someone is complaining, perceive their contentment.

If someone is lost, perceive them as found. 

If someone appears old, perceive their youth.

The great poet Jalaluddin Rumi says:

“We are God’s lions dressed as human beings.”

Imagine if all we had to do was change our mindset to realise it?