No Life Is Problem-Free

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You may not have chosen your life, but you can choose how you will live it. You may not have chosen your problems, but you can choose how you will manage them. Remember, if you want to live a peaceful life, if you want to live a successful life, if you want to be productive in your life, there is no problem-free life.

What matters is you. What really matters is where you are going. If you focus on where you are going, you will get there. But be patient with yourself. Herman Hesse said, “What matters in a person’s existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one’s external fate…” It is impossible to live your life without tasting the good and bad things. If you are honest with yourself, to get what you want, you must accept what you don’t want to accept.

You can’t solve a problem without first accepting it. If you want to solve a problem, you must first understand it. According to Robert H. Schuller, “Everybody has problems. No life is problem-free.” And to solve a problem, according to Robert H. Schuller, “Put your problem in proper perspective.” We all have problems. From today, you should always focus on solutions, not problems.

Walk Through Them

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Life is about walking. We walk alone. We walk with people. But we are always walking. Yes, we are always walking.

There are lots of things that we cannot change. What do we do? We try to change them. We try to modify them. We try to walk away from them. But the real way to solve a problem is to face it. If you don’t face it, it gets bigger.

Most of the things we face in life will give way if we can walk through them. Sometimes we have the courage to do it. Other times we don’t have the courage to do it. It is okay. But when you do have the courage to face a problem, just walk through them.

In the words of Orison Swett Marden, “Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”