If you are faced with seemingly insurmountable problems, one of the most important questions that you can ask yourself is "what's next?" What should I do next, work on next, finish next? Granted context is extremely significant to what you can do next. I find that those who get stuck can't break down their problems and just focus on "what's next".
When you break down your problems, don't worry about what is next. Visualize separating worry from the challenge and focus merely on the details in your steps. While you go through chaos it's critical to focus on what you can control at that moment - almost to the detriment of all else. And controlling it in increments that you can manage. In this way you can break down seemingly the biggest problems and overcome them.
Yes, every task can seem impossible if you don't break it down. But pick it apart and you can get to work at remaking it into opportunity.
No, I don't believe problems are opportunities. Problems are problems. It's what you make them into by breaking down the elements that can convert them into opportunities.
Just like a chemist refines a barrel of oil into the many materials we see everyday. Near sludge converted into fuel, plastics, clothing, pavement, even thread and strings. Just think of it, there are 1000's of uses from sludge. We too are to be chemists on our problems, breaking them down into elements we can reuse and combine to create opportunity and abundance.
Is there any reason to let your problems overcome you? Is there any reason to let the things that bother you continue to do so? Maybe some problems are not worth the fight, or so they may seem so on the surface. But to what cost is it if you surrender? What do you gain in that loss? I maintain that if you are to give up, you better know why. You better know in order to protect your own self, and your own courage.
If all is gained in quitting is defeat, there is no strategy for a greater purpose and the weight of your defeat will increase over time and you will suffer more loss and more loss. There will be no rest for you in this result. Quitting is the fuel of regret.
So what is next for you? What's next today?
I don't know what you are going through. I don't know the details. However I can offer you this testimony. I have failed many times. I have quit. I have been fired. I dropped out of high school. I have lost the game many times. I have given up on dreams and desires of my own heart. I know the pain, the discouragement and the suffering. I know what it's like to be poor and dependent on others for even food and money to put gas in my tank to get to work. I know what it's like to get a foreclosure notice. I know failure. I have let others down and I know the pain of letting them down.
However, I stood my ground. I drew a line and made it my front in my own personal war. And no matter how tired nor how defeated I felt, I declared that it was time to move that front forward. I broke down my problems into it's elements and I looked at the pieces. And when I realized that many of the problems were bigger than me I realized that I am totally incompetent to solve them on my own. They were bigger than me. So? What next? I asked myself, "what can I do to solve them anyways?"
I looked to others to help solve my problems. And find them I did. Through my failures I rebuilt and found people who would rally to the cause. Together we put into motion strategies and plans and we regained the lost ground and then we started to advance.
I can offer you testimony that if you are building character, you too will find people who will rise to the occasion to solve problems that are too great for you alone. And there is no defeat you can suffer that cannot be overcome, unless you surrender.
What is next for you? What next should you accomplish? No matter how big the challenge you can break it down and you can overcome.
When you break down your problems, don't worry about what is next. Visualize separating worry from the challenge and focus merely on the details in your steps. While you go through chaos it's critical to focus on what you can control at that moment - almost to the detriment of all else. And controlling it in increments that you can manage. In this way you can break down seemingly the biggest problems and overcome them.
Yes, every task can seem impossible if you don't break it down. But pick it apart and you can get to work at remaking it into opportunity.
No, I don't believe problems are opportunities. Problems are problems. It's what you make them into by breaking down the elements that can convert them into opportunities.
Just like a chemist refines a barrel of oil into the many materials we see everyday. Near sludge converted into fuel, plastics, clothing, pavement, even thread and strings. Just think of it, there are 1000's of uses from sludge. We too are to be chemists on our problems, breaking them down into elements we can reuse and combine to create opportunity and abundance.
Is there any reason to let your problems overcome you? Is there any reason to let the things that bother you continue to do so? Maybe some problems are not worth the fight, or so they may seem so on the surface. But to what cost is it if you surrender? What do you gain in that loss? I maintain that if you are to give up, you better know why. You better know in order to protect your own self, and your own courage.
If all is gained in quitting is defeat, there is no strategy for a greater purpose and the weight of your defeat will increase over time and you will suffer more loss and more loss. There will be no rest for you in this result. Quitting is the fuel of regret.
So what is next for you? What's next today?
I don't know what you are going through. I don't know the details. However I can offer you this testimony. I have failed many times. I have quit. I have been fired. I dropped out of high school. I have lost the game many times. I have given up on dreams and desires of my own heart. I know the pain, the discouragement and the suffering. I know what it's like to be poor and dependent on others for even food and money to put gas in my tank to get to work. I know what it's like to get a foreclosure notice. I know failure. I have let others down and I know the pain of letting them down.
However, I stood my ground. I drew a line and made it my front in my own personal war. And no matter how tired nor how defeated I felt, I declared that it was time to move that front forward. I broke down my problems into it's elements and I looked at the pieces. And when I realized that many of the problems were bigger than me I realized that I am totally incompetent to solve them on my own. They were bigger than me. So? What next? I asked myself, "what can I do to solve them anyways?"
I looked to others to help solve my problems. And find them I did. Through my failures I rebuilt and found people who would rally to the cause. Together we put into motion strategies and plans and we regained the lost ground and then we started to advance.
I can offer you testimony that if you are building character, you too will find people who will rise to the occasion to solve problems that are too great for you alone. And there is no defeat you can suffer that cannot be overcome, unless you surrender.
What is next for you? What next should you accomplish? No matter how big the challenge you can break it down and you can overcome.
Good post.