How to tackle scary problems

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I spent a couple of days in total chaos. Nothing seemed to work out. Nothing seemed to get done.

I realized I must get out of this slump.

I had to think of something. I sat down and made a list. I had to find a thread to start pulling on.

Sometimes things seem too much. Sometimes it seems to hard. Sometimes it's scary. No one is going to save you though. That is one thing I know. Some things you have to do yourself.

I looked at my list. It had no specific order. Most of the things on the list just seemed difficult or outright scary. Then I realized all mostly had one thing in common. It's the type of problems I did not usually work with. I could not know difficulty or the posdible outcome of anything on the list. Wat bothered me wasn't the list but what I thought.

There were only one thing left to do. Do something.

I started at the top of the list. Just taking each task and doing something, ticking of each one and noting an outcome.

Soon the list were done and my life started taking direction. Next week I am starting two businesses.

I realized that giving self defence classes may not have an even cash-flow. Starting out I may spend on transport and communications and not immediately have a return on that.

I opted for a gap filler since most of the classes will be in the evening and afternoon. I decided to make and sell sandwiches in the mornings. This is a small cash in hand business I could start with little expense. It would give me the cash-flow to survive the start-up of my actual business.

Eventually time will tell.

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.