A lot of people say: "Problems! Nothing but problems, one after another!"
You have known people whose viewpoint on life is expressed that way. They are the ones who scowl at the world and accuse it of producing problems for them, "one after another." They are the ones who look at problems as gloomy clouds hanging over their heads. I am sure that you know unhappy people like that, and you tend to sympathize with them.
On the other hand, some people say: "I've got just as many cares and problems as you have! I've got lots of problems, but I take care of them and they take care of me."
What's the difference that makes the difference?
Just what is a problem? Boiled down to essentials, a problem is a question without an easily determined answer!
Here's proof.
If you are faced with a question, and you find an answer, you have no problem. If you are faced with a question, and there is no apparent answer, you have a problem.
Incidentally, these two sentences give you the key to handling problems, any and all problems! Do you see the "key"?
Take a guess; you'll probably hit it pretty close.
Do you think that anybody can go through life without coming face-to-face with questions that concern him? Of course not! Well, then, do you think that anyone is ever able to immediately find answers to every question that confronts him? Certainly not! So, it is only simple logic to assume that everybody is going to have problems and have them consistently.
Concentrate on answers
The gloomy person is concentrating on his problems, while the person who is relaxed and contented is concentrating on the answers to his problems!
It's really as simple as that! This works because concentration on the answers to problems is the positive approach. When you apply positive action to finding the answers, you are "living well" with your problems. Furthermore, you put this positive technique into operation by starting the action with decision.
This produces a "1-2-3" formula for making all problems good problems. You will see that there is nothing complex about this formula.
Handle all problems "1-2-3"
Step 1.
Decide just what the problem is. Simplify it. Eliminate all the fuzzy negative issues that may have become attached to it. Every problem has one basic question, which is the core of it. Identify that core. As soon as you go into action in arriving at this decision, you have put a positive slant on the problem.
Failure to do this tends to let the question grow into unwieldy proportions.
When this happens, inferiority complexes are often born of the distorted belief that there is no answer to a problem.
Step 2.
After you have simplified the problem, decide what the best answer is. There is a best answer to every problem. Often there is a choice of answers, but only one of them will be the best. Talk things over with yourself, even starting out by saying "I could do this, or this, or this." Assign those possible answers to your subconscious for help. But be assured that concentration on the best answer will reveal it to you.
Step 3.
Once you have decided on the best answer, act on it! Remember what the "contented" person said: "I've got lots of problems, but I take care of them, and they take care of me." Obviously what he meant was that he acted in response to the positive best answers. As a result, he turned his problems into achievements instead of letting them defeat him.
Everyone's problems are his own responsibility
What a gloomy person needs is the cultivation of more faith in himself and the adoption of that "1-2-3" formula.
This person himself is the key to whether problems are good or bad in his life, just as it is with you and with everybody else. Again, what is a problem? It's a question without an immediately apparent answer. But between the words "question" and "answer" is the person himself, and his action or lack of it.
You now know that you can find the best answers to problems by turning on this power of subconscious concentration. And now you know that you can do it, "1-2-3."
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