May I have a word with you?

What are your challenges?

How big are they?

How unique are they?

Has anyone who lived before you ever faced such challenges? If yes, what did they do about it? And how did they do it?

Very often, we tend to think that our struggles are huge and unique and others cannot even imagine the labor we go through, forget about understanding it. But haven't the people lived before us? We have been here since centuries and yet have not changed much as a person. We still believe in kindness, honesty, authenticity, respect, simplicity, perseverance, bravery and commitment. Don't we?

I want to say at this point that - We are not living our lives fully if we don't have the problems which require help of other people. We are not doing our jobs right.

At individual level, we handle the situations with knowledge, skills and attitude. However, once we become independent, using above three ways, we start recognizing the bigger issues which affect more than one individual. It is very important for a satisfactory life to learn about them and analyze them and make attempts to resolve them. Interestingly, most of those issues can be solved by either putting a system in place or by giving people right kind of motivation to maintain discipline.

Think for a while. What are the challenges you are facing? Are you playing big enough to have grander problems? You should, if you are not.

In today's time, where words like 'creativity' and 'innovation' has become cliché, everyone wants to find unique ways to solve the issues. But isn't it necessary to ponder that, does it really need a way other than the traditional approach? Reason is, I think, results are important and whether we get them using old ways or new ones it doesn't matter much. A mother gives birth to a baby just like every other mother has ever given and yet every child is unique. Isn't it? Similarly, we should first try to use the established principles to innovate as well as solve the challenges. Probably that is why in Japan people respect elders in the company irrespective of their designations.

We have a huge challenge of saving our planet from us. And there is a simple way to do that which is the discipline of keeping maximum one child per female/ couple. Governments also can support in this initiative by putting a system of birth control in place. It is very easy to implement. Governments have details of every citizen. They can start charging parents for every additional child because it takes a toll on economy after all. People care more about money than planet anyway. So, why not? Just a (good) thought but whichever motivation works for you is fine by me. :)

Richard Bach has observed - There is no such problem as big which cannot be run away from. May be that is why Elon Musk wants to run away from this planet. However, I want to buy him some time. That is my challenge, if I put it in another way. And I cannot do it alone. If we reduce population and pollution, we may survive for few more years which can buy Elon some time to find a way out. Instead of only rich people going to Mars, possibly he can take all the mankind as well as other millions of species with us. What is the point of living without the nature's music of chirping birds and beauty of colorful butterflies and amazing sea creatures? Right?