Prescription Wealth

Beware of quick-fix solutions that end up being worse than the problems they are intended to solve. There’s nothing to be gained from a cure that is worse than the disease.

And there’s certainly nothing to be gained from a solution that merely masks or delays the problem without addressing the underlying cause. When there’s a problem in your life, get to work rooting out the core of that problem.

Facing a challenge requires effort, and yet that effort is necessary only for a relatively short time. Running from the challenge requires ever-increasing effort that has no end.

The sooner you start working through a problem, the more quickly you’ll have that problem behind you. The earlier you deal with the root cause of the problem, the more effective your efforts will be.

Truly eliminating the cause of the problem does indeed take more work than quickly fixing the symptoms. Yet once the difficult work is done to remove the problem, it’s gone for good.

Do the work to root out each problem at its core. And your efforts will bring lasting rewards.

“I make problems way more complicated then they are” ~ Our minds have a strange way of making problems much more complicated and bigger then they really are. Many times when we run into a problem we spend 70% or more of the time focused on the problem itself, which can make that particular problem bigger then life. We should be spending 70% or more of the time focused on solutions for that problem and less then 30% of the time on the actual problem itself. That small shift in your way of thinking can make even the largest of problems seem much more manageable. Check out a previous article I published called  “5 Problem Solving Questions That Work” that will even further help you understand how to handle some of your larger challenges.

Lets face it, life is always rittled with problems. Problems are a necessary evil because they allow us to develop and grow to new levels when we handle them right. The key part of that last sentance was “handle them right”. Most people that have challenges with success are their own worse enemy and the weapon they use against themselves is self talk.

There is always one common denominator that people that are unsuccessful at over coming challenges has and that is negative self talk and question asking. While you may not be able to control every situation that life throws at you, what you can control is how you react to those challenges which puts you in a Read the rest of this entry »