141 GID Overcoming Obstacles by Turning Problems into Opportunities

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2010

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Overcoming obstacles is easy when you realize that every problem can be turned into an opportunity. Do it explicitly, by identifying your major problems and figuring out how you can use that very problem to enable you to do new things, to stop doing things you wish to stop, or to make contacts and connections that could lead to future success.

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0:00.0	Stevea Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.8	One of the most insidious, unproductive, icky ways we use our time is complaining about our problems,
0:16.4	especially when we should be thinking about them as new opportunities.
0:22.2	Bernice and Melvin have finally made it official.
0:25.5	They are dating.
0:27.3	They brought pictures.
0:28.7	They went on a date to a water park.
0:30.8	There they stand.
0:31.9	Wet clothes clinging to their moistened bodies.
0:35.6	It was like some horrible creature from the deep episode.
0:39.0	Waiting in line for their next ride, it was a long, long line.
0:44.8	Melvin said, long line, ick, he sulked and withdrew.
0:49.5	Bernice said, We get to meet new people.
0:52.4	The goddess will guide us. And sure enough, they met people, made new friends, and even got some great tips on how
0:58.0	Bernice could use her goddess energy to rebalance her chakras.
1:02.0	Was the long line a problem?
1:04.0	No.
1:05.0	A problem is just a problem because we think of it that way.
1:08.0	Stuff happens.
1:09.0	If we don't like the stuff, we call it a problem
1:12.3	and try to jam the world back into the way it was before.
1:16.0	If we do like the stuff,
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