Problem Solving

Hi, I’m Sandra. Welcome to The Happyist. Here we transform by getting unstuck with holistic happiness. Best part? It’s easy and kind of fun.

If we take a look around, there are a lot of problems going on. We are sort of surrounded by them. Not just our own, but in our communities, our countries, the world. It’s a lot. And either we want to go head-to-head fighting them, or fall flat like a frightened goat, unsure what to do or how we will get through it.

We will get through it. We will.

Here’s the thing, though. We can’t fight fire with fire. Look around. It’s not working. The way we have done things is not working. And that applies not just globally, but hyper-locally. Like, in our own lives. Has what you’ve done before to solve your problems worked? If so, great! You don’t have that problem anymore. If you still have that problem, didn’t really work, did it?

This isn’t coming from a place of judgment but one of perspective.

Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Or something like that. There are various versions of it. But let’s take that wisdom in.

We cannot solve our problems from the same space they were created in.

We cannot solve problems with the same energy they were created with.

If we want change, we have to change. Period.

But let’s not bite off more than we can chew right now. Let’s focus on our own lives. Because I believe in the ripple effect. Change one thing, change everything. And those changes can be both seismic and subtle. But change only comes when we decide to level up — raise our vibe, our mindset, our intellect, our attitude, our spirit. When we change, things change.

So, what problem in your life are you trying to address? Think about how that problem came about and how you are trying to resolve it. No blame or judgement. We don’t do that here. This is about curiosity, and discovering the cause so we can get to the solution. It’s very Scooby-Doo. Chances are, when we look at the root cause and the attempted resolution, they come from the same place, the same mindset, the same energy. Yes? And that’s totally normal and very human. It’s fighting fire with fire in some regards. And we all know how that’s working out.

Let’s take the same problem and come at it from a different angle. A higher one. With a different perspective.

Think about the times you’ve sat with friends who were in the weeds and them telling you how they are going to resolve it, and you can clearly see the walls they keep banging into, and even with their plan, they are going to bang walls. But those walls are invisible to them. You are able to see another solution when they can’t, because you are coming from a different perspective, a different energy, and I will even go so far as to say a higher vibe — not to be rude, but to be honest. When I was in the weeds, telling friends about the walls I was butting into, they were able to witness my sitch from a higher vibe, because my vibe was simply lower. Not a judgement, but a simple fact. It’s energy math. It’s like a bank account that’s overdrawn. When we are stuck in a problem or a place in life we want to shift out of, we have to raise our energy, up our vibe, come at it from a different level with a higher perspective.

How do you do that when you may not even realize your energy/vibe/perspective is low?

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