Ideas don’t have to be complex to be powerful.
Rather, they have to be acted upon.
They must be tried.
The idea has got to be taken from the page into practice.
Product of your environment
Do you know anyone who has beat the odds growing up? They come from the kind of place where teens regularly kill themselves from depression: places with grinding poverty; places without love; places where toughness is emphasized, where hope goes to die?
There are many of these places in the world. They differ in location and details but are alike in effects.
Immersed, it’s easy to let it affect you, to let it get you down.
A maze is a depiction of any difficult-to-understand problem or series of problems.
For some, the maze depicts life itself.
Figuring a way through a problem is like stumbling through a maze.
If the maze was simple, you could plow right through. A simple maze has a quickly deduced solution. That’s what makes it simple.
For a more complex maze, forget it. There’s no way you can stumble through it.
There are only two ways to solve a complex maze unless you somehow have the solution drawn out in front of you.
Getting through the maze
The first way is to knock down walls, bulldozing your way through.
Sometimes you can do this by strategically ignoring obstacles. What seemed to be real was made out of paper. The obstacle was little more than a set you might see on a stage.
Other times the obstacle is very real. Running into it is painful. It’s not always possible to tell the imagined from a real obstacle.
The second way is to go above the maze as if you’re working the puzzle in a book of mazes. This involves taking a step back and considering your problem logically, and, at times, making small bets about how you think different things will shake out.
One of the best tools for doing this is dream recovery and interpretation.
You automatically step back from your daily affairs when you dream and go to sleep.
It’s that simple.
Give it a try tonight.
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James Cobb RN, MSN is the founder of the Dream Recovery System, a top Internet resource for dream journaling and interpretation.
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