Stay with me for a moment on this - are you happy about your problems?
If you're like me, "Yes" would not be your first answer. What makes them problems is what makes them aggravating. And while it may sound like a cliche, problems really are both a pain AND an opportunity.
Each problem represents a very real opportunity to make something better. Each problem means that have a field to play and grow in. It's a lumpy field, a gnarly field, a field where we may fall and skin our knees, but it's a place to grow.
More problems just means more possibilities.
Not that we want to create more problems. Life will present us with all the problems we need without us looking for them. But those problems are gifts. Those problems are possibilities. Centered problem solvers embrace those possibilities.
Centered problem solvers know that their problems do not define them, but they do provide doorways to fascinating changes and sometimes those changes can change who they are.
What possibility is confronting you today?
-- Doug Smith
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A problem is a dynamic in search of a dance. -- doug smith
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