Imagine yourself walking in a forest. People often capture these scenes with drones—those flying miracles with cameras that take incredible aerial footage. Picture this: the drone is above, capturing the entire forest, while you're walking below, inside it.

When you're inside the forest looking at the horizon, it can be a beautiful experience. The sun filtering through branches, the gentle wind, all those plants and trees—it's truly incredible. When you look down at the soil, that too can be pleasant, though perhaps not as striking as the drone view or the horizon.

But what happens when you place your face right next to a tree and examine it extremely closely?

Two Kinds of Perspective

There are two kinds of people in this situation:

One person zooms in on the tree and sees nothing but ugliness—all the imperfections, the ants eating away at the bark, every flaw magnified.

The other person, even with their face pressed against that same tree, maintains a zoomed-out perspective. They look at the tree and think, "What a miracle. How beautiful!" As John Legend sang, "Love your curves and all your edges, all your perfect imperfections."

A zoom-in perspective often leads to dissatisfaction. Not always—some people can zoom in physically while maintaining a zoomed-out mindset. But most of us get caught in the details.

Real-Life Applications

Consider your bank account. If you're looking at it thinking, "I don't have enough to pay the bills, I'm so stressed, how did I get here?"—that's a zoom-in perspective. How much harder will it be to improve your financial situation when you're stuck in that mindset?

Or your social media. When you're comparing your follower count to others and thinking, "I don't have enough followers or views," there's no satisfaction to be found there.

The same applies to real estate investing. The people I coach often zoom in on problems: "I can't find deals," "I can't talk to realtors," "I don't know how to analyze properties." When you zoom in on these challenges, you feel nothing but frustration.

The Power of Zooming Out

Try shifting to a zoom-out perspective. With your bank account, you might think: "I was able to get myself here. I've paid all my bills until now. I'm debt-free." It's the same account, but a different perspective.

With your Instagram channel: "Look how many posts I've created. I'm proud of myself. Look where I started—my first post compared to now. I've learned so much!"

With real estate investing: "The problems I'm facing now are so different from the ones I used to face. My life in five years will be completely different if I stick with this. Even if I fail, I'll have new tools to solve bigger problems."

This doesn't mean the problems disappear, but with a zoom-out perspective, your brain shifts from survival mode to gratitude mode, making solutions more accessible.

The Ultimate Zoom-Out

We can zoom out even further. We live on a spinning globe that orbits other spinning celestial bodies, with perfect conditions for life. Our very existence is miraculous.

Take a moment right now. Where are you? In a room? On a train? Walking? Look around you. If you're in a room, notice the space between you and the walls. Every cubic inch is a miracle. Every movement of your hands, your face, your feet—your voice, your breathing, your heartbeat—everything is a miracle.

Electricity, water, appliances—all miracles. When you really think about it, we're surrounded by wonders. We exist on a spinning globe that spins around other spinning globes. What a coincidence. What a gift. What a miracle.

By choosing to zoom out, we can transform our experience of life, find gratitude in our challenges, and recognize the extraordinary nature of our ordinary existence.