Every day we encounter things that don’t go our way. All the time things happen that make us a bit unsatisfied or slightly annoyed. The natural reaction to this is to complain either to yourself or to someone else. And that’s just fine! Complaining lets you let off steam and it creates bonds between people that feel the same way. But it’s also easy. Too easy!
Take the next step
So why not take it a step further? Why not try to improve things? Thomas A. Edison already said:
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
So next time something annoys you, don’t just think “This is stupid”, but also ask yourself “Why is this?” and “How can I change it?”
This will drastically change the way you see the world. Things that used to annoy you will now inspire you to think about solutions. Most people tend to just accept their fate and deal with it. This is called learned helplessness. But it can be unlearned! Start thinking of solutions to your problems instead of just accepting them. That doesn’t mean you have to fix every issue in the world, but simply thinking in a proactive way will make your daily routine much more interesting and will get you brain used to finding solutions.
Make the change
Jay Samit, the author of “Disrupt you!”, recently gave the following advice in an interview:
Write down 3 problems in your life today. Do this for a month straight. After a while this forces you to think deeper, because you already wrote all the obvious ones. So now you start to recognize things that you haven’t thought of before, because you just kept thinking about the same things over and over.
Following this advice will generate you a huge list of universal problems. Because, let’s face it: Every human being is unique in its own way. But on a basic level we are still all the same and most of us will have a very similar experience going through our lives, as long as we live in the same area of the world. So chances are, that many other people will have the same issue as you do and if you find the right solution for it they will be more than happy to pay you for providing it to them.
So from now write down 3 new things that bother you every day on and in one month you will have 99 Problems … and a Business Idea is at least one!