If you follow me or have been my friend on any of the social media platforms, you would by now suspect my strong affinity towards President Donald Trump. Trust me, that attraction is not without solid reason. I count Donald Trump to be one of my great mentors living. Forget all the media bias and conditioned hatred against him, that man is a great businessman. And I’m not even talking personality kinks now. Everybody has his/her own personality difference. Let’s keep our focus on business, wealth and personal or professional success. You need to have read any of his books, authored much before he became president, and you can quickly confirm his ‘large heart’ towards helping people achieve their own success and personal dreams. If you’re an entrepreneur, a small business owner, a focused executive or corporate climber, or someone who just wants to achieve any kind of success in whatever field or endeavour, trust me that you can learn a lot from Trump’s advice in his books.
Trump has numerous books in print (some co-authored with other celebrated authors/business gurus), besides the many written about him. The Art of the Deal (his first book; a great business book written in 1987), The Art of the Comeback, Think Big (with Bill Zanker), Think Like a Champion, Surviving at the Top, Think Like a Billionaire, The America We Deserve, Midas Touch (with Robert Kiyosaki), How to Get Rich, Why We Want You to Be Rich (with Kiyosaki), and many others. But this is not about Trump or me, it is about you; it is about a problem-solving formula that I picked up in one of his books that I believe you can employ to face up to problems and solve them in your own journey to crushing your goals in 2021 and beyond. Problem-solving is a critical skill we all have to master in business and in life, especially if you desire to reach the top of your chosen career and in life.
My Perspective to Problem Solving..
Donald Trump says, “Too many people think too much about their current situation, instead of thinking about what could be. They’re so caught up in the problem that they lose the ability to EVISION a solution”. Well, true confession, I used to have this problem of intense and clear focus too. And boy, was I screwed by my problems, until I began mastering this skill. Unfortunately, nobody totally ‘masters’ this skill for life. The more problems you solve, the more you qualify to solve bigger problems and challenges at higher levels in the future whether in business, career, in life or relationships. So, what I do since then, that you should too, is that I don’t fixate on problems. Some of us allow ourselves to dwell too much on the challenges, going over the problems again and again in our minds. You can’t solve your problems that way. You would lose your focus on your ultimate goals and dreams or objectives by making your mind focus only on the difficulties.
So, what do I do that I learnt from Trump? I refuse to get caught up in the seeming difficulties. Just acknowledge the problem and then immediately shift your attention to possible solutions to solving those problems and greatly turning things around. I don’t think about and/or personalize problems, saying, “why should this happen to me”, “this is so difficult”, “it is impossible to solve”, “can I ever find a way”, or “what would happen to me if I don’t solve it”? All that is useless thinking. Instead, I accept the fact that I have a problem and a particular challenge has been laid at my feet; acknowledging my capacity to crack the problem with focus and persistence. It is at that point that I lay this roadmap down, a great formula I learnt from Mr. Trump that I would be teaching you here. Not exactly the way he taught it or wrote about it. I have since elaborated this formula and evolved it based on my own experience and style. So here it goes.