How to Solve Impossible Problems
A guide to thinking outside of the box, and finding the answers you need, even though they aren’t always the answers you want.
Most people have complaints or gripes about things not working the way they want them to. They have something that bothers them and they have no idea how to fix it. It’s my belief this comes from the placement of barriers, or options you’ve disregarded.
Let me give you a ridiculous example
I’m in my car and I want to get out. In this situation though let’s say you’ve decided that you’ll “never use a car door again” because you got your finger caught in a car door and it hurt really bad. (we won’t get into how you got in the car in the first place. 
) Now in this situation if you’re not willing to use a door to get out then you’re stuck. If it’s not your car and you’re unwilling to break the windows of someone else’s car then you’re REALLY stuck. How do you get out of the car? You may feel like it’s impossible to fix your problem.
Although the above example isn’t something that is likely to happen to you, I want you to think about how the barriers they’ve placed on themselves made it impossible to get out of the car. We all have barriers to happiness just like these. Let me give you a more realistic example.
There is this woman who refuses to “settle” for just anybody
She sticks to her guns on the standards that she’s set down and she believes she deserves them. She wants an honest guy who doesn’t play mind games. However all the honest guys who don’t play mind games don’t have a “spark”. So she decides that she wants an honest guy who doesn’t play mind games who’s romantic and sexy. She finds a few guys who are romantic and sexy but they all seem like “players”. So she amends it again she now wants an honest, non-mind game player, romantic but not so attractive that it brings up her fears of losing “her man” to other women. Guess what? She’s stuck in the car now. She’s put up SO many barriers that she’s made it impossible to get what she wants without giving up some of her criteria. She’ll either, “settle” for less and feel bad about what a loser she is, or she’ll end up the cat lady who’s all alone with 10 cats.
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Post Commentdead surface
On August 5, 2008 at 8:15 pm
This is something that it take people many years to be able to adhere to common sense. The banging of the head against the wall or any obstacle watching the blood gushing from the wound and not stopping.