Have you ever noticed that for one and the same idea there are people that will say why it doesn’t work and others that will say how to turn it into reality? That there will always be people who find problems for any solution that is presented and others that will find a solution for any problem that makes itself present? What differentiates these people from one another? Would it be culture, personality, education, religious confession, nationality? All these together? I’ve given quite some thought to this matter.

I’m inclined to believe that it’s above all a question of choice: you may choose to be the person who solves, who pushes, who asks “how to do it?”. How to overcome potential problems without killing a good idea?

We are talking about life here, from small things like: after a long time dreaming of sunny days, you go to the beach… and it rains. You may get annoyed at least, and terminate the so longed for days, or find a solution such as to catch up on your reading, go to that nice restaurant you haven’t been in for a long time and to enjoy what you had planned in a different way… or to spend the most boring holidays of recent times. Or you may decide to enjoy a weekend of solitude instead of getting annoyed with the circumstance, as Serena said in “Alone… and an omelette”?

At work, where we spend most of our time, this is even more shocking. Isn’t it much more inspiring, enjoyable and enriching to work, share projects with people that have a positive perspective and who are open to new ideas? Even if they are risky and difficult, as they often are… To develop a “how to make it possible” outlook instead of killing an idea for fear of failing?

Isn’t it much more inspiring to work with people who, by choice, I believe, keep a positive vibe despite the complicated context?

Precisely at work, where simple themes may turn into very complex ones, and where we expect an environment of pragmatic people! But to be pragmatic doesn’t mean to be intelligent. Intelligence has to do with creating a more open environment, creative and better. Intelligence is not allowing the work environment to turn you into a frustrated and unhappy human being, but into a better person, developing an outlook for finding solutions where no one sees them.

The world needs more people who make the wheel turn, who make the colleague smile when he finds a partner to carry out his projects; who makes lunch with the family a happier occasion in spite of family challenges; who rouse friends to look for a positive perspective for their problems. It isn’t easy! But who was it who promised it would be? Whose fault is it for it not being easy? We choose to be either victims or authors. As authors, we at least have a chance to build a better world, lighter, more human, with more solutions.

There will always be problems: how to solve them depends on each one’s choice. We need to make uncertain choices, risky, but positive. That is the fun of life and my proposition!

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