Do you have a problem in life?
If your answer is yes, then relax and have a great time because your problem is actually the ‘Gateway’ to a solution.
You don’t believe me!
It’s ok. Even I didn’t believe it for a long time, when I read an article at some point of my life which made this big statement that ‘Our problem is actually a solution’.
After spending 40 years of amazing life on this kindest planet of the universe that we know so far, I can tell you with conviction that ‘ Yes, your problem is actually the gateway to a solution for a challenge in your life’.
Do not believe me now because this article has just started, keep reading further to believe it on your own.
Let us discuss some examples of problem. You may find these examples very similar to your own problems or very similar to the problems of some people you know.
First example of problem:
You are addicted to smoking.
This problem is a problem only at the surface level. You need to explain this problem in detail and try to understand that why this is a problem, how it impacts your life.
So you now explain this problem in detail like this:
“You smoke a lot every day. You want to quit smoking because smoking is injurious to health. But you are not able to quit smoking because you love smoking. Smoking so much every day, has affected your health. You keep coughing frequently due to smoking which is a painful experience for you. Frequent coughing disturbs your work and it also makes others uncomfortable. If you continue smoking like this, it can pose a threat to your livelihood and can get you into financial trouble”.
Now that you have stated your problem in detail and have also understood that how your problem affects your life, let us now understand that how this problem is also a gateway to a solution for a challenge in your life.
Read the detailed explanation of your problem carefully. You have stated that “If you continue smoking like this, you can get into financial trouble”. Basically, this statement shows that you want to have financial stability in life, so you want to quit smoking. In fact, if you quit smoking then it will become a solution to deal with the challenge of having financial stability in your life.
So do you now realize that how your problem of being addicted to smoking is actually the gateway to a solution to deal with the challenge of having financial stability.
Hope, you have started to believe me now when I say that “Your problem is actually the Gateway to a solution”.
Let us now discuss another example of problem, which is a widespread problem globally.
So the second example of problem is:
“You are addicted to Social media”.
Like in the case of previous example, this problem is a problem only at the surface level. You need to explain this problem in detail and try to understand that why this is a problem, how it impacts your life.
Now explain this problem in detail like this:
“You spend a lot of time on WhatsApp and Facebook. The amount of time that you spend to read messages and to respond to messages on these two social media sites is so much that you are not able to finish other important work, sometimes it has so happened that you have ended up ordering food instead of preparing it yourself. If you reduce the time that you spend on these two social media sites, it would help you to manage your time more efficiently. Efficient time management would bring a balance to your personal and professional life.”
You have now stated your problem in detail and have also understood that how your problem affects your life, let us now understand that how this problem is also a gateway to a solution for a challenge in your life.
Read the detailed explanation of your problem carefully. You have stated that “If you reduce the time that you spend on these two social media sites, that is, WhatsApp and Facebook, it would help you to manage your time more efficiently. Efficient time management would bring a balance to your personal and professional life”. Basically, this statement shows that you want to have a balance in your life, so you want to reduce the time that you spend on these social media sites. In fact, reducing the time that you spend on these social media sites is the gateway to the solution to deal with the challenge of having a balance in your life.
Hope this has now added to your belief that your problem is the gateway to a solution to deal with a challenge in your life.
Let us discuss the third example of problem.
The third example of problem is:
“You hate to talk to a colleague in your office”.
Explain this problem in detail to understand that how this problem is the gateway to a solution to deal with a challenge in your life.
The detailed statement of this problem is:
“You have a colleague in your office who says things that have a negative impact on you. You cannot avoid this colleague because he sits next to you. If you can stop this negative impact from your colleague, you can perform better at work”.
Let us now try to understand that how this problem is the gateway to a solution for a challenge in your life.
The detailed statement of the problem mentions that “If you stop this negative impact from your colleague, you can perform better at work”. So this statement shows that you want to perform better at work, so you want to stop the negative impact from your colleague. In fact, stopping the negative impact from your colleague is actually the gateway to the solution to deal with the challenge of performing better at work.
Hope the third example has now reinforced your belief that your problem is actually the gateway to a solution to deal with a challenge in your life.
We can go on and on with many such examples of problem and eventually find that these problems are actually the gateway to the solution to deal with a challenge in your life. The reason for writing this article is to help you think deeper and analyse your problem whenever you face it at any point of time. And once you come to believe that your problem is only a problem at the surface level and it is actually the gateway to a solution to deal with a challenge in your life, it will help you to look beyond the problem and will help you find out the real challenge hidden in your problem and a solution to deal with it.
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