{"id":544,"date":"2010-08-23T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:46:29","slug":"why-you-should-focus-on-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2010\/08\/why-you-should-focus-on-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Why you should focus on the problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard this platitude, or many like it, but I have some contrarian advice for you. <b>Focus on the problems and obstacles; focus on removing them.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/2790815897\/\" title=\"Low water crossing by bjmccray, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Low water crossing\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3017\/2790815897_491a33effe_m.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a>Dr. Ken Jones, President of Lubbock Christian University, presented this idea at the Texas Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus conference.<\/p>\n<div>Key fact: <b>Only 15% of people are truly goal oriented. The rest are problem solvers.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Only 15% of people can start with the vision, set goals, and then be motivated to work effectively towards those goals. Most of the rest of the population are problem solvers, and they are very good at it, he said.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you&#8217;re one of the 85% who are not easily motivated by traditional goal setting, you shouldn&#8217;t feel so alone. And you should pay attention to this idea.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Examine your vision and goals. Think about what is keeping that vision from coming true. Now, what would happen if you could remove those obstacles?\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The leader sets the vision. Then the whole team works together to identify the problems and the obstacles in the way. Everyone works on removing the identified obstacles and solving those problems, Jones said.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What do you mean you don&#8217;t have a team? Of course you do. There&#8217;s you and your <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2009\/01\/how-we-formed-our-own-business-advisers.html\">board of advisors<\/a>\u00a0at the very least.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There will always be problems, but keep removing the problems.\u00a0Remove the obstacles, and the vision comes true.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>(If you&#8217;re wondering about the picture, yes, we made it across.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\"> Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard this platitude, or many like it, but I have some contrarian advice for you. 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