30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

I thought I had missed
something.
My roommate Pol was much cooler about it. He only
answered the phone when he wanted to, when he felt like it, and if
not—he just went on doing what he was doing without bothering. I
started liking the idea and worked on adapting this “Zen-like”
mentality, telling myself that, “They will call again.” I also learnt that if
it’s a really important call, the caller will not give up and probably call
five times within three minutes.
Action Step:
Try it out! Don’t be a slave of your phone and leverage voicemail.

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How to deal with problems
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
—NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
Do you have many problems? Congratulations!!! And I’m not kidding!
You have many opportunities to grow, because a problem is always
an opportunity to grow by learning from it! So, let’s have a better look
at this. Over 20 years ago, when I started working at Disneyworld in
Orlando, we—the newbies—were taught that the word “problem”
doesn’t exist in the vocabulary of a Disney Cast Member: “We don’t
have problems, we only have 
challenges
here.” Dr Lair Ribeiro
writes that, “Your problems are your best friends” and Leadership
Guru Robin Sharma asks us to see our problems as blessings! So
what are problems now? Challenges, blessings, friends? Or all three
of them? Isn’t life just about facing one problem after another? What
makes all the difference is how you face it and how you learn from it!
When you start learning from your problems, life gets much better.
Look back at the problems you had in your life. Didn’t each one of it
have something positive?
Maybe a loss in business saved you from an even bigger loss,
because you learnt from it. In hard times, it can be very beneficial for
you to adapt the belief that life/God/the universe only puts a problem
in your way if you are able to solve it!