The key to "solving life's problems" is not in "correcting" the mistakes...

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"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." — John C. Maxwell

This is, of course, the secret to Living Life As A Champion.  

But many people miss the point by assuming this "correcting" has to do with the mechanical or physical processes/systems and not thinking that one of the most powerful, life-affecting processes/systems is being ignored.  

The most determinate system in our lives is our belief/emotional system for it determines our behavior and also, ultimately, our level of happiness.  

If we don't fix it, then we will be left with primitive, unexamined beliefs that lead to feeling fear (where there is nothing to fear) needlessly and lead to behaviors that are counterproductive for our lives.  We look at the behaviors (which are akin to "symptoms") and we fail to fix the causers of the behaviors, so we continue to get the undesired behaviors over and over and over and, of course, the undesired results over and over and over.

The most effective thing any human being can do is to correct those causes, and not ignore them or be oblivious to them.  (Of course, we will unavoidably "feel" the effects, so some people might say that they are not oblivious to their feelings, of course, but the point here is that they are oblivious to how the system works and how they can change what precedes and causes those bad feelings and bad results.)

Will you choose, in the current challenge, to fix the process that causes you the emotional angst and resistance, to do more than address the mechanical systems and choose to fix the bigger causers?  

Will you?

Let's discuss this, shall we?

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I like this observation from the site of Marc And Angel:

"6.  If you want things to change now, you need to start by changing yourself. – Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.  Do you know people whose lives are unnecessarily chaotic and stressful?  And isn’t their situation largely because they feel chaotic inside?  Yes, it is.  We like to think that changing our external circumstances will change us.  But we have it backwards – we need to change ourselves first before our circumstances will begin to change."  

This sounds simple but it is profoundly true!