Problems Are Opportunities In Disguise

Today’s message is from Mark Victor Hansen’s book Dare to Win. Mark writes that problems are opportunities in disguise. Mark quotes Cavet Robert:

“Life is a grindstone and whether it grinds you down or polishes you
up is for you and you alone to decide.”

“I’ve got a problem.”

The young man had just come to Dr. Norman Vincent Peale on Fifth Avenue in New York City, grabbed him by the lapels and said, “Dr. Peale, please help me. I can’t handle my problems. They’re just too much”.

Dr. Peale said, “Look, I’ve got to give a talk. If you’ll let go of my lapels, I’ll show you a place where there are people with no problems.”

The man said, “If you could do that, I’d give anything to go there”.

Dr. Peale said, “You may not want to go there, once you see the place. It’s just two blocks away”.

They walked up to the Forest Lawn Cemetery and Dr. Peale said, “Look, there are 150,000 people in there. I happen to know that none of them has a problem.”

Problems are a sign of life. If you have a big problem, be thankful for it. It proves you are alive and functioning.

The generally accepted viewpoint of most people, of course, is that problems are bad. Most people feel that the ideal state of things would be problem-free. Therefore, if we have problems, something must be wrong. As a result we end up devoting a large part of our energies to bemoaning our fate. We end up saying to ourselves, “Everything would be great, if only I could just get rid of my problems!”

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