You might have experienced so many problems in life, in fact people relate life and problem as both sides of the coin. It becomes rather depressing when we think about from one point and looking at life as a bigger picture.

It is the issue with the wrong vocabulary which is placed everywhere and by anyone.

Actual meaning of problem as per Oxford is ‘a thing that is difficult to deal with or to understand’ so when we see life from these lenses, we felt mentally tired.

On the contrary, life has ‘problem statements’ or ‘decision statements’ which means life consists of many tasks, which are only completed by taking DECISIONS. If simply put, the more decisions you take in your life, the more you elevate in your life. In fact the difference between the successful people & unsuccessful people in any field is, the successful ones take a lot of decisions.

Of course taking decision carries the risk of failure but let me remind you, you can never find a person so much successful in any field of life (I am not quoting the wealthy people of the world, they may be successful in the business aspect of the life but not in others) without taking any decision.

You may come across a person whom you can learn nothing because that person hasn’t played a game called LIFE and has walked simply very carefully. That person hasn’t failed yet but still that person cannot impress you. The person who hasn’t failed enough in life, hasn’t tried much i.e. hasn’t taken many decisions. He has been with the same problem statements throughout the life. Since he hasn’t tried anything new, he hasn’t failed. Since he hasn’t failed, he hasn’t learnt anything new, so he has nothing to show you and inspire you for anything. He seemed correct superficially but imagine he has nothing share with you.

From a spiritual angle, when you stay with a problem statement for longer time, the new challenges will not come to you as you have to clear the existing ones. It is just like a video game, you fail a lot and by repeating the same again and again, you get better at it and then you cross that level and new challenges are thrown at you.

I can explain this with my recent experience. Four years ago, we had bought a beautiful car which was a pickup truck, we loved it from all angles. In four years, there was no day when we had not felt proud of what we had. Around 6 months ago, there was an announcement from govt. officials to ban the vehicles of a particular series of engines as these engines were more polluting than others. It was kind of lockdown for the cars. we only have this car, so whenever, we got the news, our life was on hold. The lockdown stayed for approx. 4 months with small breaks of weeks or fortnights and when the ban was lifted, there was a fear of the news coming anytime. It was literally killing, I tell you, at least for the people who have their cars as second home with so much emotions attached to it. The decision was simple we had to sell it off and go for a new one, which has lots of financial and emotional implications (I was already super tight on my budgets), so we ignored the problem statement for a couple of months and life felt standstill. When it was unbearable and was difficult to take the decision, we took a decision of taking a decision on a condition which was, if another ban comes, we will sell this car. And that same evening, we got the news of car ban and the next day we sold the car, keeping our emotional calls ignored, we kept on taking decisions and moved ahead with what seemed right.

We definitely cried a lot after taking the decision, it was so much emotional moment just like giving a piece of heart to someone but the decision had to be taken. Now I see after a month, that may a rough time but now my life is NOT stuck and I have new challenges to solve i.e. I have grown a little bit more.

If you keep dragging your life without your decisions, mental growth, spiritual growth and experience growth stops and we lose the essence of life.

Do take the decisions, in-fact, ‘I am not taking the decision for next 15 days’ is also a decision but ‘okay, I’ll think about it’ is not a decision but ignorance to a problem statement.

Remember, life’s work is to throw challenges at you and your work is to solve them and be ready for next challenges.

Ending with lots of love!

Happy reading 🙂