“In a day, when you don’t come across any problems, then you
can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path…” John F. Kennedy
What is a problem: An obstruction that’s not allowing you to do
something you wish to; a disturbing thought that’s spoiling your
peace of mind; or something you would prefer to ignore but unable to
do so.
In short problem is an act of interference in your life by unwanted persons, or undesirable developments, or both.
Many a time, I have noticed that our immediate reaction to any
problem is to push it down the priority list – not now, later,
approach – and focus on simpler tasks.
We develop a habit of ignoring the need to act on problems by
delaying our attention as much as we can, until it becomes unavoidable
— perhaps, too late to work-out a practical solution.
Why we run away from problems? In fact, I’ve done it a number of times in my life — and faced the consequences too.
In one such case, I waited for more than a decade for letting things
cool off. When that didn’t happen, I took a stern action and
- surprisingly – it worked!
Good that it worked, but, it could have worked at that time also —
10 years ago. Unfortunately, I never tried just because I was scared
to take action. Perhaps, I assumed that it wouldn’t work.
A wrong assumption kept me running away from that problem for 10
long years — depriving me of a normal life – before, finally, taking it
on with full force — and working out a solution!
But I lost 10 precious years of my life and the sparkles of joy and
happiness that could have been a part of it, had I acted then, in time,
decisively!
So never run away from problems rather attend to it, and identify a workable solution as early as possible. Image Credit
Cross-Posted from Fighting Soul's Blog
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