Cease to be a problem and become a reward.
Nobody is birthed to be successful nor is anyone born cursed.
The blessing lies in what voices we listen to and the ones we reject. This starts from the time we’re tiny toddlers, all through the educational system and even when we eventually arrive at our occupation.
The choice is yours—are you going to be a problem?
Every human being becomes a problem to every other human being if they do not curtail worry and fear. The minute you allow worry to find a home inside you and fear to stall you, you make yourself weak in moments when strength is needed and require your family and friends to carry your load.
This is how we evaluate our peers.
Are they able to come into a situation, figure out what to do, initiate the process and survive the setbacks?
There are only two things that keep us from achieving that status:
Worry – becoming overwhelmed with anxiety before taking inventory of possibilities.
Fear – lacking the self-confidence and energy of faith by surmising that the same benefits that came to us in previous predicaments are still available.
Once worry and fear enter the heart of any human being, he or she is incapacitated from carrying their own portion and must rely on the patience and generosity of others.
If this is the selection you make—either because you grew up in an environment where it was acceptable, have taken on a religion that believes such weakness is dependence on God, or you are just terrified of every option that comes your way—well, if this is your profile, you will be a problem.
And here’s the truth:
When problems cannot be solved, they are first ignored and then they’re abandoned.
You can become a reward. You can be a gift to yourself and your fellow-travelers if you can substitute simplicity for worry and humor for fear.
Simplicity is worry that proclaims, “While we’re waiting for a better solution, let’s keep ourselves busy with this one.”
And humor is buying the time to allow circumstances to shift, reinforcements to arrive or a resolution.
When you bring simplicity and humor, you are considered a reward.
You save yourself mountains of frustration and you make other people glad that you’re in their lives, sharing the burden.
Much of worry and fear is taught—which is good.
Because if you can learn the wrong, you can relearn the right.
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