This Is How You Deal With Problems In Life

To solve your life problems you must take a look from an objective perspective.

Look at your life through the eyes of someone that does not care about how you feel about anything and everything going on in your life.

Treat it as though you were a machine.

Not making enough money? Find a way to work harder, get a second job or get promoted.

Lonely? Go outside and talk to more people, take a leap of faith to go on more dates, or plan more family events or events with friends.

Feeling unhappy? Do more fun activities, travel more, watch a comedy special, etc.

Most of our life’s problems are quite simple in how we can solve them.

They only require a bit of work here, a bit of attention there, or a bit of creativity every now and again.

The problems are often not as complex as we make them out to be!

It’s just that our mindset, our attitude and our expectations get in the way.

We have to solve the problems in the most perfect, easiest, and most comfortable way possible.

Because of that we keep thinking and thinking and thinking about ways to solve the problems in a different way.

We know how to solve them already… but those ways are uncomfortable and hard.

When you take an objective perspective you find out the most drastic, simplest and most direct way to deal with a problem.

Which does not mean it’s the best way.

These ways do, in fact, ignore emotions, which is why they aren’t ideal.

But at the very least they give us a good starting point and something to do other than sit around waiting for the perfect plan of action.

Doing something to solve our problems is better than nothing, even if it isn’t ideal.

Get over the fact that this will be easy or fun. It’s a problem, not a birthday present.

You already know how to solve the problem you just don’t want to take the action to solve it because it’s not ideal.

Get over it!

It will never be ideal.

Allow some solutions to suck. Allow them to be stressful, difficult, hard and uncomfortable.

Because, instead of worrying about it and sitting idly by, you’ll go with the best solution you can come up with and solve the problem so much earlier than if you kept looking around for more ideal solutions.

Try it out! Act on it!

Do something!

Your problems aren’t solved with one easy, comfortable press of a button.

They are solved with consistent, hard, even uncomfortable tasks.

And remember, that no matter what the problem is, you can only solve it through taking action.

Originally published at http://quora.com.