Can you see the big picture?

How many times when you were so obsessed with the fine details that you hit ‘overwhelm’?. Then someone tells you that the solution is to look at the big picture. As if that will fix things…

Although the ‘big picture’ relief valve has a solid foundation, the reason that it does not work most of the time is that we do not know what the hell the big picture is!

Take your cycling as an example. You may have put in the training – using up all your spare time. And bought all the best equipment using all your spare cash. Then you have ‘busted your gut’ to get to a bike race. Suddenly mid race, you break a spoke…or the pace is so hard that you are left trailing off the back of the peloton. In the middle of this, you are bound to ask ”…what the hell am I doing this for?”

You thought that it was all about having fun…and FUN was the big picture. But all this pain and frustration sure is no fun…

If this has ever happened to you – then you need help.

…and it is not the traditional help that you need. You just need a better understanding of what the big picture actually is.

I prefer nowadays to use an analogy to make sense of the big picture….and it is the movies. Think of all the ‘big pictures (as in movies)’ that you have enjoyed.  They may have been the big epics, thrillers, trilogies, horror movies or tear jerkers. But they all share the elements of what a big picture is:

• A story to tell;
• Good guys and bad guys;
• All the range of emotions from agony, desolation, destruction, tears, fear, and lies ….to joy, happiness, delight, laughter and rejuvenation;
• A beginning and an end;
• A roller coaster ride;
• And finally a happy ending.

Just like the movies, these elements make up the big picture in our existence that we have all been unable to grasp.

Life is just like a big picture movie. Your life is a story. I challenge anyone who has not had good guys and bad guys in their lives. In life, you will experience the full range of human emotions. Your life has a beginning and an end…but most importantly, there will be ups and downs – just like a roller coaster.

And when it is all done – you will finally discover the reason for it all (and it has nothing to do with religion). Then you will have the biggest laugh of all.

…You will just crack up – like the amateur actors who end up finding out that they were misled on ‘Candid Camera’.