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Oprah Winfrey said: “You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, “You can’t.” Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.”
What makes successful people successful? Successful people think about solutions, most of the time. Solution-oriented people are constantly looking for ways to get over, around, and past obstacles that stand in their ways. Problem oriented people talk continuously about their problems, about who or what caused them, how unhappy or angry they are and how unfortunate it is that they have occurred. Solution oriented people, on the other hand, ask themselves the question: “How can I solve this?” and then take action to deal with the problem.
Effectiveness is the ability to solve problems. All men and women who have accomplished anything of importance are people who have developed the ability to solve the problems that stand between them and their goals.
Think about Internal vs. external Constraints. There’s an 80/20 rule that applies to the constraints between you and your goals. The rule suggests that 80% of your constraints will be within yourself. Only 20% of your constraints will be outside of yourself, contained in other people and situations. What I’m saying is that it is you who is usually the major roadblock setting the speed at which you achieve any goal you set for yourself.
Remember the old poem: “For every problem under the sun, there is a solution or there is none. If there is a solution, go and find it. If there isn’t, never mind it.”
To Remove The Roadblocks Between You and Your Goal:
1) Identify a major goal and ask: “Why aren’t I there already? What’s holding me back?” list anything you can think of.
2) Face yourself and the possibility that it is your fears and doubts creating the biggest roadblocks to your success.
3) Identify the constraint – is it internal or external, is it you creating the constraint or is it an external one you have no control over – that is obstructing the speed towards your goal?
4) Definite a solution as a goal, set a deadline, make a plan of action and work on the plan. Work on it through the week until the obstacle is removed.
You become what you think about most of the time. Leaders think about the future most of the time, and where they are going and what they can do to get there. So put your attention on moving forward, on solutions, on solving problems, on letting go if something outside you is in the way. Decide to create a new and better day for yourself.
The Author and Speaker, Marianne Williamson wrote:
"In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
And I say – you would never have been given the dream, without the power to make it come true.
