Your Solution May Be The Problem

Al has a problem. It’s his success.

His focus, commitment and performance  have earned him a  promotion, but he isn’t making the grade in his new position.  He’s trudging along, overwhelmed from an increase in work load, responsibilities and additional people. If he asks for help he risks being viewed as incapable, if he continues along this current path he risks becoming incapable.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them…”
- Albert Einstein

I believe a problem cannot exist unless there is already a solution. What keeps us from discovering it is succumbing to all of the assumptions we make about the problem in the first place.

There isn’t one of us who doesn’t face a multitude of deadlines, responsibilities and commitments and for the most part we gallantly work to meet these challenges, often to no avail.

Why?

Because our strategies and solutions are being generated from the same system or matrix (web of assumptions, thoughts and beliefs) from which they were originally created.

The answer is to get bigger than the problem.

By endeavoring beyond the confines of your current perspective you’ll glimmer a new reality. This objective “step” out of your subjective experience, at minimal, provides you with a new expanded worldview beyond the one in which your current problem resides.

Do you have the courage?

Here’s an exercise to get you started.

Look at this following statement and find how many assumptions are being made.

“The solution to the problem is…”

My current list is around 20.

Next time you find yourself stuck, begin by making a list of all the assumptions you are making about the situation as a means to create new solutions.

TJP^