“Effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity minded.”
— Stephen Covey
Do you look for problems?
Or do you look for opportunities?
Seek and you shall find – if you’re looking for problems you will find them.
And if you look for opportunities, you’ll also find them.
But let’s look at the problem seeking for a moment…
It is so easy to find problems if you look for them – & it seems like the older people get the more they look for problems (especially problems about other people).
This is true for me at least – not me looking for faults in people, but realizing that people were looking for faults in me & my life.
I never wasted my time or energy thinking about what’s wrong with someone – but I found out that people do that all the time.
Some or many people are actively seeking scapegoats. Seeking someone to blame or find fault with.
And I didn’t know that people were doing that until I ran into a brick wall of people’s opinions about me & my eccentric ways, as I prepared for fame.
All of a sudden I went from opportunity & joy minded to problem minded. I went from living in peace to living in fear, and I began seeing problems with everyone & everything – which I wasn’t looking at before.
I lost my energy and my mind in looking outside of myself, towards potential problems, and I’ve been working hard to get my mind back with myself since then. It’s been 3 years.
I’m re-learning to lead my life & be true to myself.
I’m re-learning to NOT be like the problem-seeking people.
And I’m learning to NOT take on the fearful projections of the problem-seekers.
I’m re-learning a lot.
And I’m embracing MY perspective and MY beliefs.
And not worrying if people see a problem with me having my own perspective – because they will.
But some will love it too, and to those fans I say thank you.