“Now the beast has revealed it’s ugly face and we shall not rest pooh in troubleuntil it is dead.” – Richard the Lionhearted

 

Facing problems in Life is one of the most personal things anyone can ever discuss.

It is personal because … well … it is really about attitude.

 

And I am careful when I say this … because you can have the right attitude to face problems … but you can just be too damn tired to face it.

 

In combination with that last thought I wrote … I love this thought from Richard the Lionhearted.

 

Take a moment and ponder.

The beast <the problem> has revealed its ugly face … we do not recoil … we do not retreat … we shall not rest until it is dead.

 

Unfortunately. You cannot do this with every damn problem you face in Life.

If you did … well … I can guarantee a problem would slip up on you and catch you when you just didn’t have the energy or focus to deal with it.

 

Therefore it comes down to deciding which problems you will ‘not rest until it is dead.’

 

Now.

What really makes me love this quote is the attitude.

 

Why?

I sometimes fear far too often that we choose a problem to defeat … only to be misdirected or lose focus or move on to something else which appears to be the problem du jour.

 

I don’t have answers for this.

I am not that smart.

Nor can I be that flippant with some tripe like ‘defeat the problem in front of you! You can do it!” <exclamation points included>.

 

Life makes choosing what problem to face and defeat difficult.

There is no code book nor is there a ‘how to choose’ book.

 

And worse … sometimes Life makes a problem look eensy weensy <that would be very very small> … and yet it is actually expandable with one drop of water to a point where it is huge.

And maybe just as worse … at other times Life gives you a problem that looks massively insurmountable … and you invest a lot of energy & angst approaching problems-quoteit … and all it takes is one drop of water to shrink it into nothing.

 

I am not giving any advice here nor can I tell anyone what to do.

I can’t.

I cannot because many times the beast looks like a beast to me … and I head out with all intentions to kill it … regardless of its size. And unfortunately the beast is simply something simple with a beast mask on.

Maybe sometimes I am better than others at identifying the real beasts from the pretender beasts … but I tend to believe no one is particularly spectacular at this task. You may be better than some other people … but not spectacular.

 

So all I can do is share a great quote and thought and get people thinking.

 

In business or in Life … if the beast reveals its ugly face … do not rest until it is dead. And I imagine another thought is that if you actually decide it is a beast … even if it really isn’t … go ahead and kill that one too.

 

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