UNEARTHING SOLUTIONS

Over the past week I have been scratching my head on what I should write about. Ideas have been far between and the few that I did come up with were not good enough. I decided to do some reading to stimulate the flow of creative juices through my mind. Eureka!! I then came upon a principle in the book; The Power Of  Your Subconscious Mind by Dr Joseph Murphy. It states that the answers to all that we seek lie in our subconscious mind, we need to look within, as their is a vast wealth of resources that lie untapped inside us. On this premise I got the idea on what to write about this week, I believe we should look within ourselves for solutions and as we are formulating these solutions, we supplement them with external ideas/solutions. Many times in life when  confronted with challenges, projects or even a task that seem to overwhelm us, we let them drown out the solution within us by magnifying that which confronts us and shift our mindset to just visualize on how we can't overcome the challenge. The obstacles we face in the long run are meant to bring out the best in us (the solutions within), so next time you face a challenge, let us for a change trust in our ability to handle it. God created you to be a solution to that challenge your facing and better yet to be an answer to someone else's problem. How then do you develop a culture of creating solutions and ideas in your life; through reading and exposure. For example: let's say your grades are falling and you decide to do some research on how you can improve your grades. You read that in order to get good grades you need to be spending at least four hours a day studying, you then decide to copy paste this information into your life, and for the first week or so you manage to do it, however after some time you stop and eventually do away with the idea. Why was this so? I think it's because you got the idea from outside but you failed to pair it with the solution within. What you needed was to take this idea and morph it to suit you, thus creating a solution that can be implemented in your life as your the author. So in this incident the best thing to do would be to; ask yourself how long can you study, what time are you at your peak, and create a schedule formulated on this premise. Here, you have taken an external idea (allocation of time towards studying) and used it to form your own solution (studying strategically according to your strength and personality trait). We realise the solution was always inside you, it just needed exposure to another idea to bring it forth. To sum it all up, the solution you seek is within you, expose yourself to other ideas, and combine them to create  tangible answers to that which you seek. You won't believe what you can solve.


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