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You Can Choose to See Problems or See Solutions
Problems or solutions — the choice for what you see is yours.
It is all too easy to see problems in the world.
Spend any time whatsoever online and you’ll be bombarded by problems. Financial issues, pandemic issues, politicians being terrible, good people suffering due to bad people, and so on. Problems are everywhere — you hardly need to look for them.
Yet most people do. A great deal of our conditioning is problem-based and problem-oriented.
Problem-solving, for example, sounds like a good thing. And on the one hand — it is. But on the other — the focus is automatically given to the problem.
When your life is in neutral — shifting out of it tends to be all about where you are in relation to this problem or that. Find a problem and solve it.
What we fail to see is that all the focus on the problems makes them much more apparent. And, even more than that, we direct our attention to seeking out problems. Then, when we find them, we are easily overwhelmed by them.
One of the hardest things to do when learning to be more consciously aware and mindful is to shift focus away from problems. This tends to be my largest issue.
