Problems are Good for You

Problems are good for you. They’re fodder for personal and spiritual growth. You grow, and can even blossom, from your difficulties. 

When things go badly, there are plenty of problems to solve. You have to come up with solutions, ideas and ways to solve them. You’re forced to be creative and inventive. You’re pushed to your limits so that you ask for help, delegate responsibilities, set boundaries and be pro-active. The pressure is on, so you have to act outside your secure comfort zones of thinking and feeling. You have to do something about your dilemmas. 

When life is good, nothing is broken, so there is no need to make repairs. There are very few problems to tackle. When life is good, you don’t need to do anything. You become sleepy and lethargic, so you do nothing. You become comfortable, and even strive to make yourself more comfortable.

Sometimes you become so comfortable that you get stuck in a rut, feel blocked, trapped and unable to move forward. It can feel like you’re stuck in the mud or worse, that you’re rolling around in cow dung. Now you have a problem. 

Be grateful for problems. They provide fertiliser for growth.