It's Your Choice

 

The way you look at your problems determines what you do with them. Will you run? Will you hide? Will you face them head-on?

Look at your problems as challenges instead of aggravations -- it will increase your chance of solving them.

-- doug smith

Solve the Next One

Remember all the problems you've already solved and you'll feel better about solving the next one.

Just look at those muscles. Just feel that strength. Just focus that powerful mind of yours.

You've got this.

-- doug smith

Problem Surfing?

Problems come in waves, one following another until we solve or release the original wave.

It's not surfing, but you can't skate your way thru. 

Roll up your sleeves, and do what you need to do.

-- doug smith

Keeping an Enemy

To keep track of what your enemy thinks without thinking what your enemy thinks is a challenge of keeping enemies.

Maybe you did not choose your enemy. Do you still want to keep them an enemy?

-- doug smith

Flaws

Any idea, any concept, any belief that includes hatred or disrespect is already deeply flawed.

Adding flaws will not help solve any problem.

-- doug smith

Creating an Enemy

Creating an enemy makes you an enemy.

How can that help you feel any better?

-- doug smith

Don't Panic

"It's the end of the world!"

"This will never work out!"

"We can't possible figure this out!"

Yikes. The sounds of panic are shrill and painful. Worse, they do not help.

Putting a panic in a problem won't solve it, but it will certainly slow it down. It will probably even make it worse.

Let's not panic. Let's get to work.

-- doug smith 

Leadership Problems

Leaders have problems just like everybody else and they have an unfair ability to spread those problems. They can, with their power and influence, make things worse.

But they don't have to. You don't have to. Leaders can also use their influence and power to make things better. Working well with others, leaders can solve those problems.

Let's take the better choice.

-- doug smith

Focus

When a problem surrounds you it often confounds you.

Keep focused on the goal beyond the problem.

--- doug smith

It Could Be You

Have you ever sat thru a meeting or event and wondered, "Who's in charge of this mess?"

Do you encounter broken processes that get in the way of success and that interfere with customer or team member happiness?

This can be a challenge, but it is also a choice: 

If you look around and wonder "who is in charge of fixing this mess?" it could be you. It probably is you. 

-- doug smith

Talk it thru...

Stuck? Is that problem persistent?

When problems ensue try talking them thru.

It might be exactly what you need.

-- doug smith

 

Skip the Fear

Fear of creativity keeps many problems from getting solved.

Skip the fear. Expand your creativity.

-- doug smith

 

Either Way

Fix the problem and then fix yourself, or fix yourself and then fix the problem. Centered problem solving works either way.

-- doug smith

 

Reciprocity

Helping someone else solve their problem can likely lead to you solving your own.

-- doug smith

 

Focus

Knowing what you want from a solution is the first step in getting it.

-- doug smith

 

Communicating Better Solves More Problems

Imagine how many problems we could solve by improving our ability to communicate.

Interpersonal problems, organizational problems, team problems, political problems, maybe even scientific problems -- all would be better managed if we communicated more effectively.

I'm working on getting better at that. How about you?

-- doug smith