When life challenges you, focus on your solutions, not problems!

What do you do when faced with an adversity? When you are in a financial mess? Struggling in your relationship? When success seems to run away from you? Or, you get stuck amidst a difficult situation? Do you keep looking at the problems? Or, choose to resolve them and focus on the possible solutions?

In the 19th century, colonial Africa was expanding and emerging as a new market. So, most of the shoe making companies in Victorian England sent their representatives to scan the prevailing opportunities. All of them came back and reported ‘no opportunity’, as no one in colonial Africa wore shoes back then. Though, the representative from Bata reported a ‘huge’ opportunity’. The fact that no one wore shoes meant that he could practically sell a pair of shoes to everyone.

While everyone else saw it as a problem, he was more focussed on the solution. Today, Bata is one of the most prominent names in the region’s shoe market.

Problems help us grow

It is easier to focus on the problem. Ranting about them might seem like the only option but that is not true. Failures and adversity occur in our life to help us, not hurt us. They help us look beyond and expand our vision and abilities. The unique thing about human being is his capability to come out of the dark and shine brighter than before. It’s important that we never lose sight of this truth and start focussing all our energy towards the solution.

Focus on solutions, not problems

Physics has proven that ‘Reality lies where the mind (consciousness) creates focus. Everything else is only illusion, and a field of possibility.’ This means that a change in focus will automatically lead to a change in our reality. If we focus at the problems, its sufferings will become a reality; if we focus on solutions, its sweet fruits will be our reality.

As humans, we always have a choice. The choice to take our life in a certain direction. We can choose to focus on our life’s problems and our sufferings or focus on our faith on the Higher Power that will help us sail through the challenges. We can choose to focus on the financial struggles and lead ourselves deeper into scarcity or focus on the abundance and plenitude of this Universe and create opportunities for financial success. We can choose to focus on being deprived of love and care or focus on the infinite love that we hold within ourselves and that the Universe holds for us.

Either ways, whatever we focus on, grows. If we focus on problems, problems will grow and if we focus on the solutions, we will find more solutions. Remember that you always have a choice to focus on either of the two. And, even if you believe that you do not have a choice, it is you who is making that choice.

So, choose. And, choose wisely; focus on the solutions.