Problem Fixing Tips
Lots of people don't truly recognize that the key to wellness is effective problem-solving. By increasing your understanding of problem solving strategies, you will be able to solve your wellness challenges, reduce stress and take back control of your health and your life. In doing this, you will reduce your chances of getting seriously ill from chronic degenerative diseases, many of that are, a result of stress.
Here are 15 principles and practices of problem solving and change engineering. These 15 problem-solving strategies should make an enormous difference in your ability to solve all your wellness challenges.
Always keep an open mind for new opportunities and ways of doing things. Stay flexible. Be willing to try out new scenarios and strategies. Never commit until you have tested several theories. Rigidity is a trap. If you're not able to adapt, you can't truly live.
A solution is only as good as the color of your hat. Black Hat (negative) thinking is very important in solving problems, but it really is not the only hat. Never forget there are five other hat colors and five other ways of looking at problems. (De Bono's Six Thinking Hats)
Big-picture thinking is critical for solving problems. You need to be able to remove yourself from the problem and look at the situation objectively. Get up in that helicopter and obtain an aerial view of the problem. Stepping outside the problem could make it much clearer than before.
Always ask questions. You are just one person limited through the power of just one mind. To be truly inspired to solve problems well, you need to harness the power of others' intelligence as well. Gather information, read books, do research and learn just as much as you can.
Stay focused. Do not allow yourself to get distracted. Dealing with too much or spreading yourself too thin will destroy or at least significantly delay your success. Do one step at a time. Slow and steady wins the race (Aesop).
Be realistic. Make sure your plans are not too far beyond your reach. Nothing will sabotage an attempt to solve a wellness challenge faster than making the problem too big. Blowing things out of proportion will ensure you never solve the problem.
Follow through. Finish what you start. You are better off solving one wellness challenge successfully than to start although not finish solving 10 wellness challenges. The feeling of accomplishment that you're going to feel just by getting to the end of the very first wellness challenge will be worth it even when the solution is not yet perfect. You can always try again or dig a little deeper later on.
Be thankful for what you have. Being envious of others success will never help you solve your wellness challenges. Understand that every individual whom seems successful always has their very own set of wellness challenges to solve. You will discover few those who have achieved total wellness.
Break it down into smaller pieces. How do you eat an apple? You eat an apple, one bite at a time. Start at the beginning and work to the end and also the end more than likely to come. Smaller is much better when it comes to solving wellness challenges.
Do not substitute one problem for another. Be mindful when you work through your challenges that you don't accidentally create new problems in place of old ones. You need to cope with the whole problem not simply pieces of it
If something doesn't work, learn from it and move on. There's absolutely no point dwelling on the past or on failing. Nothing is ever a failure unless you don't learn to fix problems (super fast reply) from it. Edison, said, I have not failed 10,000 times; I have successfully found 10,000 ways that do not work.
Celebrate your success and reward yourself as you go along. Don't wait until the end. We are human and we have been weak. We have to give ourselves as many rewards as children as a way to be able to solve problems effectively.
Find cheerleaders to cheer you on and stay away from wellness thieves. Build a team of people around you who shall help you move forward. Don't give your problem solving power to folks who are jealous or scared.
Never quit within the face of adversity. If it was easy to solve a wellness challenge, it could not be called a challenge. Keep going. Keep trying. Keep hoping. Keep learning. Remember every day is a fresh start.
Expect your very best from yourself. Never be so hard on yourself that you FORCE yourself to fail. Yet, at the same time, never be so easy on yourself that you ALLOW yourself to fail either. The goal is to keep up enough pressure to obtain the job done without falling to either extreme.
