Stop referring to problems and start calling them challenges.

Then convert the your challenges into opportunities.

An opportunity will then create an obligation for you to take action.

Problem>Challenges>Opportunity>Obligation>Take Action

Keep a journal throughout your life and be sure to write in it daily.  Better yet make sure to review what you’ve written every so often to see how far you’ve come.

I’ve personally have learned that through collaboration one can achieve more, faster.  Seek out those with whom to collaborate with and soar to newer heights together.

Within the obstacles you face you will find the solutions to overcoming them.

If you are living waiting for the weekend and dreading Mondays then you are not doing what you love.  We all need to make ends meet but doing it in a place we can’t stand just makes it harder. Better to do something you enjoy and get paid for it.

No matter how well you plan for it something is bound to go wrong.  Or at least in a way you didn’t expect.

Knowing when to change course and adapting to the circumstances is a skill most people overlook.  So make you plan.  Play out the different scenarios but remember to remain flexible.

Ask and you will receive.  Seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. -Matthew 7:7

One of the best things you can do for yourself is what Dan Sullivan calls the 4 Entrepreneurial Freedoms:

• Freedom of Time
• Freedom of Money
• Freedom of Relationships
• Freedom of Purpose

Focus on these in order to gain more freedom in your personal and professional life.

I used to say, “When in doubt, bounce,” which means leave wherever your at if there was any doubt of the outcome or felt slightly uncomfortable.

Now I’m on the lookout for those same situations to see what and why causes those feeling of unease.  I want to uncover the meaning that brings up the doubt or uncomfortableness.  Facing them head on and work my way through them.

I wonder how many opportunities I lost because I couldn’t deal with my own insecurities and wanted to just be “comfortable.”

What would’ve happened if instead I had said to myself, “When in doubt, seek within and press on.”

Know what are your limitations and weaknesses.  Then go out and find those around you who will gladly take them on.  Someone else more than likely is better at those things then you are.  Even passionate about them.  Let them take on these challenges while you focus on what you are great at.