When approaching any obstacle, it’s often useful to be able to remove yourself from the situation and imagine it happening from a third person perspective.

Picture someone else in your situation and look at as if you were just a “fly on the wall.” How should that person act in this hypothetical situation? What advice would you give that person?

“Objectivity means removing ‘you’ – the subjective part – from the equation. Just think, what happens when we give others advice? Their problems are crystal clear to us, the solutions obvious. Sometimes that’s present when we deal with our own obstacles is always missing when we hear other people’s problems: the baggage. With other people we can be objective.
This new perspective can often yield insights that are hard to find if we can only see our problems through our own eyes.