be the problem

When faced with a bit of writer's block, why not just go ahead and steal from someone else?

So tonight's post comes from Steve Chandler's book "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself." Which I still haven't gotten motivated to finish reading. So I flipped open to a random page and here is our insight for the night:

92. Try becoming the problem
Whatever type of problem you are facing, the most self-motivational exercise I know of is to immediately say to yourself, "I am the problem."
Because once you see yourself as the problem, you can see yourself as the solution.
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By seeing ourselves as victims of our problems, we lose the power to solve them. We shut down creativity when we declare the source of the trouble to be outside of us. However, once we say, "I am the problem," there is a great power that shifts from the outside to the inside.
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Unfortunately, our society today is in the habit of thinking the opposite of "I am the problem." Time magazine even ran a cover story called, "A Nation of Finger Pointers," that made a powerful and persuasive case for the fact that we have become a nation of victims who "see the American dream not as striving fulfilled, but as unachieved entitlement."

That there is some good advice. (And yes, I just changed to a southern drawl.)