The Three-Step Method To Solve Daily Life Problems
Everyone has problems, the key is how to react to them. Discover a rational method to do this masterfully.
Life is about solving problems and, in short, achieving success is about solving problems smartly.
What is a profitable company if not an organization that gets paid to end its customers’ problems?
What is a successful person if not someone who is always exceeding their ability to overcome adversities?
Well then, we all have problems. This is obvious. However, research shows that how we respond to them, especially emotionally, is what defines our ability to find uplifting solutions.
So knowing how to look at and deal with a problem is key. Fortunately, there is a technique for this, which is what will now be demonstrated in three steps.
Write Down the Problem
Ok, we start with a trivia that, at first, doesn’t seem to solve much.
However, writing a problem is an essential exercise in understanding what exactly is at stake. In the heat of emotion, adrenaline, anxiety tends to overshadow our ideas.
Just thinking about the problem is not enough. Making the active effort to reflect and put it down on paper is the best way to visualize the real difficulty.
This will force you to eliminate everything that is not essential, and you will have to make your thinking material.
This exercise serves to separate you from the problem, to create a psychological barrier over which you will have control.
Play the Role of an Outside Observer
It has been said that emotional reality dictates how we solve problems. So if we’re submerged in bad emotions, chances are a bad solution will come out of all of that too.
Think of situations where your friends share problems with you. You often see solutions that they are not capable of, precisely because of their emotional state.
In short, counseling someone can be more effective than waiting for them to find the solution themselves. After all, if you’re giving advice, it’s because you’re not the one who’s hurting — so you’re not emotionally shaken and tired, maintaining your physical and mental capabilities.
So try to imagine yourself as an outsider, and that the problem you are solving (although yours) belongs to someone else.
This will remove the emotional factor that keeps you from making effective decisions.
Give Yourself Advice
Finally, pretend you’re taking care of someone else’s problem, not your own.
In times of urgency, need, lack of concentration is what makes us make bad decisions — or even become paralyzed, without any reaction.
While this exercise can be difficult, the experience will always help. So practice it now with small problems, so you already know what to do when there’s something bigger.
