"Perceptual blindness sheds much light on why we miss obvious solutions. By focusing on one thing (a problem), we miss something else (a solution)."~Michael McMillanAnother success killer is focusing on the problem rather than the solution. It is a learned behavior to focus on the solution, because our brain just wants to focus on the problem. Yes, you need to look at the problem, but only long enough to start to come up with solutions to that problem. Once you have a few solutions to work on, focus on the solutions!What we focus on expands and unless we work on metacognition (thinking about what we think about) our focus will not be strong enough to stay on the solutions...our minds will drift back to the problem. It's the way that our brains are wired, to focus on the problem rather than solutions. It's our brain trying to keep us safe, keeping us awake to the problem.A good thing to work on is when you bring problems up at your work, at home or wherever, in addition to talking about the problem. bring a solution to the discussion. By bringing a solution to the problem, it allows the mind to search for other solutions instead of going back to the problem.
Here's another thought when bringing solutions to the table...don't just bring one. Bring as many as you can come up with and you will find the right one. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner said "The best way to get an idea is to come up with a lot of ideas."Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!"Perceptual blindness sheds much light on why we miss obvious solutions. By focusing on one thing (a problem), we miss something else (a solution)."
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."~Joseph Sugarman
This is so true...the problem is that we focus so much on the problem that we can't see the opportunity. A long time ago, one of my first mentors told me, "don't come to me with a problem unless you also have a solution." That's always stayed with me. Do you think like that? What would happen to you if you did?
Why do people do business with you? Because you solve a problem for them, that's why. We are all looking for our problems to be solved for us. Those who can solve the problems are rewarded, not those who can't or only see the problem. Are you solving problems for your prospects and clients? I hope so...otherwise your business is dying.Stop focusing on the problem and start focusing on solutions! Analyze the problem but then search for opportunities. Don't stay focused on the problem, only the opportunities.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."
"Perceptual blindness sheds much light on why we miss obvious solutions. By focusing on one thing (a problem), we miss something else (a solution)."~Michael McMillanAnother success killer is focusing on the problem rather than the solution. It is a learned behavior to focus on the solution, because our brain just wants to focus on the problem. Yes, you need to look at the problem, but only long enough to start to come up with solutions to that problem. Once you have a few solutions to work on, focus on the solutions!What we focus on expands and unless we work on metacognition (thinking about what we think about) our focus will not be strong enough to stay on the solutions...our minds will drift back to the problem. It's the way that our brains are wired, to focus on the problem rather than solutions. It's our brain trying to keep us safe, keeping us awake to the problem.A good thing to work on is when you bring problems up at your work, at home or wherever, in addition to talking about the problem. bring a solution to the discussion. By bringing a solution to the problem, it allows the mind to search for other solutions instead of going back to the problem.
Here's another thought when bringing solutions to the table...don't just bring one. Bring as many as you can come up with and you will find the right one. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner said "The best way to get an idea is to come up with a lot of ideas."
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!"Perceptual blindness sheds much light on why we miss obvious solutions. By focusing on one thing (a problem), we miss something else (a solution)."
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."~Joseph Sugarman
This is so true...the problem is that we focus so much on the problem that we can't see the opportunity. A long time ago, one of my first mentors told me, "don't come to me with a problem unless you also have a solution." That's always stayed with me. Do you think like that? What would happen to you if you did?
Why do people do business with you? Because you solve a problem for them, that's why. We are all looking for our problems to be solved for us. Those who can solve the problems are rewarded, not those who can't or only see the problem. Are you solving problems for your prospects and clients? I hope so...otherwise your business is dying.Stop focusing on the problem and start focusing on solutions! Analyze the problem but then search for opportunities. Don't stay focused on the problem, only the opportunities.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."
"Men and women are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."~James Allen
Are you anxious to improve your circumstances? Really, are you anxious to improve your circumstances? "Of course I am" you say. Well then, what are you doing about it? I'm sure that you are willing to improve yourself, but what are you doing? Who are you hanging around with? The same people that have gotten you to where you are today? Are they going to help you get to where you want to go? What are you reading? Who has time for reading? you say...Are you speaking your goals out loud in the morning and before bed? What? It sound silly? It makes you feel dumb??? I guess then you really aren't willing to improve yourself and you remain bound. These just are a few of the things that you could be doing to improve your circumstances.
"If your brain created the problem, maybe someone else's help is needed for a solution."~ Lynn Pierce. Does that make sense to you? Of course, being a Mentor, it does to me. But I'm also an Irritator, and the Irritator in me sees so many people accepting mediocrity, remaining bound in their circumstances that it makes me mad. It makes me mad because they could have so much more, do so much more and be so much more, but they are unwilling to do what is necessary to create their perfect life.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Men and women are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."
"If your brain created the problem, maybe someone else's help is needed for a solution."
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."~Joseph Sugarman
This is so true...the problem is that we focus so much on the problem that we can't see the opportunity. A long time ago, one of my first mentors told me, "don't come to me with a problem unless you also have a solution." That's always stayed with me. Do you think like that? What would happen to you if you did?
Why do people do business with you? Because you solve a problem for them, that's why. We are all looking for our problems to be solved for us. Those who can solve the problems are rewarded, not those who can't or only see the problem.
Action:
Stop focusing on the problem and start focusing on solutions! Analyze the problem but then search for opportunities. Don't stay focused on the problem, only the opportunities.
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."
