What you’re looking for is what you're looking for right here

How to solve any problem no matter how big it is.

No matter what comes along. No matter how big it really is. A problem or a challenge as we prefer to call them, seem really big when they come along. Even the little ones, like ‘Hey, where is the pepper? I just can’t see it’ Of course you can’t see it. We have to be careful how we can speak ourselves into and out of existence. You always discover the pepper was there all along. 

Speak yourself into existence

Whenever someone says to me, ‘Hey Jim, have you seen that bracket? It was right here a few minutes ago’ ‘I just don’t understand what happened to it’ they say, ‘I just had it a minute ago and seem to have lost it’. Whenever they say that, my first reply as we start to look around is “It is here somewhere and I’ll tell you what...when we find it, it will be in an obvious spot’ Sure enough a minute or 5 minutes later when we find the bracket. Bob says ‘ Oh here it is, oh ya, I remember now, I laid it here on the floor before I flipped over the plywood onto it.’

So there is something to learn here. Many times we are looking for something that we think is lost in our life. Or maybe it is something we are trying to solve and in our opinion just can’t seem to get it. Just can’t seem to come up with the right solutions to solve it. 

One of the best exercises I learned in my earlier years of attending different seminars and workshops was if I wanted to solve something I would put it into the form of a question. For example, if I wanted to increase my income, I would say ‘ How can I increase my income by 20% in the next 12 months?’ Then I would take a blank piece of paper and start making a list of as many solutions possible for this question. No judgement. Just write out the solutions. I wouldn’t analyze it over and over. Just keep writing and writing adding to my list until I felt I had exhausted it. Then take a break for a few minutes and come back to it. After looking at it, many times my solution was either in the first 5 items or sometimes it was the second last one. If I still wasn’t satisfied with my solutions I would place it to the side for 24 or 48 hours and just let the list sit. Many times before I got back to the list I found a solution in a conversation I was having with someone or just happened to be reading something and just stumbled across the winning solution. 

So anything can be figured out if you are willing to put some time into it. No matter how big it is you can start by putting it on paper. This gives you a chance to really look at it. The other way is to talk to someone. It could be either someone you can confide in or even a Professional. Many times, a different set of eyes or ears can see the obvious solution for our dilemma. It is like ‘Eureka’ that is exactly what I was looking for or it can come in a flash of an idea you get as a result of the conversation.

Einstein has been quoted in many forms and one of his famous quotes was ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’  It’s true too, but we have allow ourselves to open up and be open to a solution. Forget the logic. Just give yourself permission to be open and receptive to a solution. Tapping into your higher self. Your subconscious mind. We are such powerful forces. 

Even when you are working to solve it, begin with the end in mind. Focus on what you want your solution to look like. Write this out as clear as you can get it. So much, that if someone woke you in the middle of the night, you could speak it out in 30 seconds. It is so clear, that it is part of your being. There are many ways to do this. The most important is that you face it. Face your challenge right in the eyes. Hit it head on. Just doing that is 50 percent of it. The rest will unfold as you go. Facing it, starts to remove and unmask the fear and push it to the side. A lot of times you will find that your perceived challenges were just that. Perceived and interpreted to be something that would stop you from acting. 

I used to read articles like this and think it was a good idea and then put it on my list or save it in my email until tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes. Nothing ever gets done or acted on. Even though I was looking for a solution and the solution was right in front of me I never recognized it. I guess I wasn’t hungry enough for a solution. Eventually though, some ideas keep repeating themselves and you start to recognize a pattern that the universe is just trying to remind you.

And so…you act!

Because, your only access to changing your self or your world is action. 

Your action. The world that is watching doesn’t care about what you intend, how committed you are, how you feel or what you think. That’s why you have to take full responsibility for your actions.

Lets face it. No one gives a hoot about your action. They are so caught up with their life and have their own problems to look at and really have no interest in what you want or don’t want.

So Write out your biggest challenge that is going on in your life right now. Make a list. Then take action. Do something about it. Starting now. Even one movement and step in the right direction creates space and will make you feel good because you acted.