Tag: Problem-solving

Nothing Is Too Dark For You To Handle

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Life is tough. Life is hard. Yes, we know. But do not make it harder for yourself.

Because you still have a long way to go. You still have a lot to do for yourself. You are still learning. You are still growing. You still have lots of mistakes to make, and to learn from. You still have real people to meet.

If you do not take care of yourself right now, you are going to burnout before you even get to where you want to be. The problems that you are trying to solve, you can solve them. Don’t give in to darkness, to problems. Problems are not problems. They are our friends. We can learn a lot from them.

If you are humble, if you are willing to learn, you can learn from problems.

Remember that problems are not written permanently in stones. They can be solved.

If we are willing to do the work, if we are willing to get uncomfortable with ourselves, if we are willing to ask questions, we can work on them.

What is in front of you right now, the problem that you are working on, it is there to test your understanding. It is there to test your strength, to test your passion, to test your commitment, to test your hunger, to see whether you are ready for more.

Because if you cannot handle the little ones, then what makes you think that you can take on bigger problems?

Life rewards problem solvers. If you want to go higher, to test yourself, then go for bigger, tougher problems. Because the more problems you solve, the stronger you become. The more problems you go after, the more people will get to know you.

When you see a problem, make it your friend. When you do that, you can learn a lot from it.

How To Get Comfortable With What You Are Avoiding In Your Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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We have all messed up in the past. That is okay. You are not alone in your world. You are not the only person going through what you are going through. That is life. Whatever it is that you are going through in your life, do not avoid it. Get to know it. Get comfortable with it.

Whatever it is that you are going through in your business, don’t avoid it. Get to understand it. Get closer to the issue.

If you want to solve a problem, you don’t avoid it; you face it. Whatever it is that you are facing right now, it is better to face it than to avoid it. If leave it, it will get bigger. If you don’t do something about it, it will get bigger. Take action. Do something about it. It is yours to make better. Do not make it worse by running away from it. Get to work.

What is keeping you up at night? What is taking your attention away from other things that you are doing? Is it your life? Is it your business? Is it your customer? Is it your behavior? Is it your kids? Whatever it is, you can do something about it. You can even start with yourself. Yes, start with you. Because if you don’t know how you are contributing to your problem, you won’t know where to start. If you don’t know what you are not doing well, you will find it hard to fix it, to change it.

Instead of avoiding your life, ask yourself, ‘How can I make my life better?’ And you can make it better.

Start by looking at what you are doing that is working. Then ask yourself, ‘Why is it working? What are we doing right? How can I take it to the next level?’ Then move on to what is not working. Ask yourself, ‘Why is this thing not working? What are we missing? Don’t worry about who did what. Talk about how to get things back on track. Ask, ‘How can we make it better.’ Making something better is better than blaming other people for what happened.

Blaming other people doesn’t make things better. It drives people away from making things better.

Remember, you don’t know everything. If you are stuck, don’t remain stuck. Talk to people who are better than you are. Keep your pride. Check your ego at the door. Because if you think you know everything, then you don’t need other people’s help. You don’t need your own help. Why is that? Because you don’t know what you are doing. You don’t even know what you do not know. And you are not willing to ask for help.

Don’t go there! Because no one knows everything. If you think you know-it-all, then you don’t really know what you are doing.

To lead your life forward, whatever it is that is keeping you up at night, stop avoiding it. Face it.