How To Discuss Problems Positively For Better Outcomes

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Problems are real. Obstacles are real. They are there. Whether we like it or not, we are going to have to deal with them. We cannot avoid them.

So what do we do? How do we get past them? How do we talk about them? How do we face them? Because if we are to make progress in life, we have to deal with them. We have to face them, no matter how tough.

When you are faced with a problem, you have to embrace it. Do not hide what you are going through. It is not good for you. Discuss it with someone you trust, someone who really wants you to succeed in your life.

When you are discussing it with your chosen person, discuss it in a positive way. Do not focus on the pain. Focus on what you are learning from it, what the situation is teaching you. Because in any situation, if we pay attention, if we are not distracted, there is something to take away.

When you say something in a positive way, it changes something in your life. It changes how you see your problems. You start to see opportunities. You start to see solutions. You stop talking about your problems in negative ways. And you start to see how you can walk past them, how you can move forward in your life.

Complaining about what is going on in your life, it won’t change anything. You will remain stuck in the same place, in the situation.

But do not get discouraged. There is always a path forward. Because nothing is permanent. What you are going through is not permanent. Do not make it permanent.

With more work, things do change.

To find your path forward, you have got to move past talking negatively about yourself, your problems, and even your future. Because nobody cares.

If you think people care about what you are going through in your own life, you are kidding yourself. You are kidding me!

Are you really kidding yourself? Are you really kidding me?

Before You Act

‘Treating an uncertain world as if it were predictable only gets you into trouble.’

‘If you can’t predict the future- and increasingly you can’t- action trumps everything.’

‘If you believe that passion and desire must be in place before you act, you may never start.’

‘Nothing happens until you take that first smart step.’

‘Before you act … you need to know what you want.’

‘The people who excel at creation don’t spend months or years assembling resources. They like to get started quickly- immediately, if possible.’

A key part of moving forward is understanding current reality.’

‘In the worst of all possible worlds, you are going to fail quickly and cheaply as a result of using Creation. That is not a bad thing.’

‘You are only one thought away from an insight that can make a problem go away, perhaps turning it into an opportunity in the process.’

‘Problems are good news (almost always). Really.’

Source:

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, & Paul B. Brown (2012). Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future