Why We Need to Broaden Our Perspective and Narrow Our Focus

Candy Barone
5 min readNov 28, 2023

While we have progressed in so many ways, through technology and access to more information, we also have regressed. Everywhere you can see a prevalent energy of entitlement and a lack of accountability present.

In many cases, it feels like we’ve gone back 50 or 100 years from all the progress initially made. Something seems to have shifted through the pandemic, and I feel that two types of people emerged, as a result.

The first type are people who did some deep soul-searching. They leaned into all that shifted and realized they craved something far more meaningful in their lives, as the hamster wheel of busy and the corporate climb of success no longer felt so lucrative. They have been going through an awakening of sorts, and have started to rethink their own living legacy.

The other type seems determined to stay in victim consciousness.

They blame everyone else for their lot in life. They continue to feed into oppressed systems and the energy of separation. All they focus on is how to “get theirs” … often, at the detriment and cost to others.

The sense of entitlement that has arose since has been palpable.

We, as a collective culture and society, desperately need to extend our peripheral sight beyond the “what’s in…

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Candy Barone

Transformational Business Strategist + Executive Coach Igniting Radical, Sustainable, Aligned AF Human Design Leadership | Lover of dogs, baseball, books, music