In the search for fulfilment, you encounter setbacks, challenges, and problems. This reality could evoke specific responses: you either solve the problem or contemplate numerous alternatives, such as helplessly surrendering to the problem, ignoring the challenge and pretending it is not there, patiently waiting and watch it unfold, or giving up and expect a solution to evolve naturally out of nowhere.
Today’s discussion centres on the pivotal role of problem-solving skills in achieving fulfilment in life. Whether it’s at a personal or enterprise level, understanding and pursuing fulfilment will empower you to take charge and adopt a proactive approach that fosters solutions and resolutions, putting you in control of your journey.
In the journey of life, you are simultaneously creating problems and proffering solutions. The intention is to live in a way that solution pedigree outpaces your nuisance value.
Every exchange, transaction, and interaction collides with problems and solutions.
To provide my service today, which is a solution to you, someone else had to solve specific problems for me; someone had to create a digital platform (WordPress) through which I would render my offerings and solve certain information, motivational, and entertainment problems. WordPress met my needs for digitisation, documentation, accessibility, preservation, availability, and functionality; all of these would be positioned to be a click, a scroll, or a swipe away.
It’s crucial to recognise that all your aspirations, intentions, and expectations can either perpetuate problems or offer solutions. They coexist to fuel innovation, refine disruption, and unleash your creativity.
So what makes one person helplessly surrender, give up, ignore/pretend, wait, and another person, faced with the same situation, decide to respond and solve the challenge?
It’s the spirit of enterprise that sets one person apart from another. It’s this spirit that enables one person to face a challenge head-on, while another might feel overwhelmed. It’s a spirit of resilience, determination, and problem-solving that inspires and fuels your journey.
An entrepreneur has the Insight and Foresight to identify a need or problem and volunteers the intuition and initiative to provide the solution.
Entrepreneurs are Proactive self-starters, with staying power and can prioritise Productivity and Objectivity over sentiments and difficulties. At the heart of Entrepreneurship is Value proposition, Relationship Management, Customer retention, Profit Maximisation, the effective management of Human Resources, and the Key Drivers of Enterprise are 1. Passion fertilises a spark of brilliance, magnetises ideas, and creates a staying power. 2. Capacity or Know How. The uncanny contribution that resolves situation 3. Investment & Funding. The resourcefulness of time, capital, network, and energy that can be deployed towards problem-solving 4. Organisation and Delegation 5. Risk – Rewards Analysis, or the problem–solution iteration. As you go about your routine, guided by a consciousness of fulfilment, please be sure to zoom in on the challenges and problems in sight. And ask, does this challenge minister to the spirit of enterprise in me?
If there is an itch, some entrepreneurs somewhere must scratch.