Is your perspective limiting your joy and influence?

Sometimes I'll play with the GPS navigation display in my car, even when I'm not looking for directions. I have this small dial that zooms in or out on my location with each turn: street, block, neighborhood, city, county, state, region, country, continent and world. While I'm stopped at a light, I like to zoom out to the dot on the image of the globe in outer space. It reminds me of when I was a kid and I would lie in bed thinking about my relative size from increasing distances above me.

In my everyday life, my mind defaults to zoom into street level. Street level is about me—my short-term goals, my agenda, my current activities and my immediate desires. It's natural that I default to street level, but I wonder what would change if my default was much bigger, if it was dialed out to the story larger than myself.