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  "description": "Let's start by looking at what problems actually are 🤷🏻‍♂️",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-12T07:00:32.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gilespcroft.com",
  "tags": [
    "offering advice",
    "fishing around in the past",
    "you're _already_ ok",
    "thinks that _it_ has to do it",
    "limited data",
    "3 Principles",
    "right tool for the job",
    "Right tool for the jobMaking decisions is just as much about knowing what *not* to do ✋🏼The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "Working as an Innate Health coach, people generally come to me to help them solve problems.\n\nWhether it's a habit or behaviour that's limiting their life, a feeling of being stuck; having trouble sleeping or inter-personal difficulties; being overwhelmed by strong emotions; chronically over-thinking; struggling with workload or productivity or just life in general, the question always boils down to:\n\n> _“How do I change this, Giles?”_\n\nAnd I'm pretty certain I can indeed help, _whatever_ the problem is.\n\nNot because I know what the solution is—I honestly don't have a clue, and shy away from offering advice at all costs!—but rather because of what problems actually _are_ , and where solutions come from.\n\n## What are problems?\n\nIf we take a trip to dictionary corner and look up the etymology of the word ‘problem’, we find this:\n\n📖\n\n****Problem**** : from  _****pro****_ __:__ ‘forward’ +  _****ballein****_ __:__ ‘to throw, or reach’\n\nSo, at the most fundamental level, a problem is the mind, observing a situation (let's call this ‘A’), measuring it up against all of its conditioned beliefs about how things ‘should’ (🚩) be (we'll call this ‘B’), finding it lacking, then fishing around in the past to ‘throw, or reach’ that old data into a future that, naturally, it can't control.\n\nBut that it thinks it has to arrange in a particular way, ‘in order’ for you to be ok.\n\n(When you're _already_ ok.)\n\nIt doesn't know how you're going to get from ‘A’ to ‘B’, it thinks that _it_ has to do it all, and hey presto, you've got yourself a ‘problem’.\n\n🤷🏻‍♂️\n\n## Where do solutions come from?\n\nKeeping it _really_ simple and remembering that our _entire_ experience, from birth to death, consists of moments, where we're either:\n\n  * _in_ the flow of life and present to that, or\n  * in the flow of life and at the same time being _distracted_ from that, by what the mind is saying _about_ life\n\n\n\n…then the answer to that question becomes a bit clearer.\n\nBecause we've established that the solutions don't come from ‘what the mind is saying’ (that's old, stale, very limited data) so, logically, the solutions we seek can not lie in _thinking_ analytically about our problems.\n\nThey therefore _must_ come from being present to life itself, _without_ the distraction of the mind's commentary.\n\n## But we can't just _not_ think, can we?!\n\nUgh, minds and their ceaseless objections to what they don't understand! 🙄\n\n(It's ok, I've got one too.)\n\nOf course we can't _not_ think. Thought is one of the necessary 3 Principles of experience. Without thought there is no experience to be had!!\n\nBut (and this is such a big ‘but’, I'm going to give it a little box of its own)…\n\n💡\n\nWhile fresh new solutions are delivered to us through the __medium__ of thought, these solutions don't __originate__ from the analytical mind.\n\nThe true _source_ of solutions, is life-energy itself (‘Universal Mind’ in 3 Principles terms); ‘wisdom’, ‘common sense’, ‘intuition’, ‘grace’, or ‘insight’ if we're really into using labels today.\n\nSo we solve our problems by going back to basic principles. By knowing where to look. By using the right tool for the job; something I wrote about in a previous Daily Reminder that I'll link to below.\n\n💟\n\nGiles\n\n### Related\n\nRight tool for the jobMaking decisions is just as much about knowing what *not* to do ✋🏼The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft\n\n‘Problem-solving’ / ‘Decision-making’, same-same.",
  "title": "How to solve any problem",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-16T09:37:34.652Z"
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