Change your view, change your world

# Chapter 209

There are many opportunities in your life that feel like problems. They look like problems feel like problems smell like problems but they are opportunities. They are really are often opportunities to change something important, repair something, make something more efficient, make something better, assist an unhelpful person to move along to another job and out of your hair, to fix a broken system, to change an unjust system, to develop more leaders, to build something beautiful, to inspire people, to empower people, to change the world.

But if you see feel and smell a problem, the opportunity may well pass you by. You will major on the minors and miss the bigger issue if you come seeing feeling smelling this as a problem. For me, it is usually two factors that play into me seeing problems everywhere instead of opportunities - my feeling and attitude are the first one, and friends who are problem absorbed is the second one. Choose to limit your time with those friends! Choose to change your attitude. These are both on you and me. Show me who you hang out with and I will show you your future. Or show me how you show up each day and I will know what your future holds.

This is basically a posture on life. Decide if you want to have a problem-filled life or an opportunity-filled life? Wake up each morning and go to bed each evening thinking about either your problems or your opportunities. I am really thankful that some of my thorniest problems/challenges in the past turn out to be some of my best blessings/opportunities. For it was only as I saw and experienced that those “problems” became “blessings” did I understand that this could happen all the time, and that it was mostly an internal process. Change your view, change your world.