Title: How to Change Your Mindset to See Problems as Opportunities | Inc.com
Headings: How to Change Your Mindset to See Problems as Opportunities
How to Change Your Mindset to See Problems as Opportunities
Dwelling on problems causes stress and hampers productivity. What if you could train your brain to see problems as opportunities? Here's how!
Accept That Problems Are Inevitable
Steel Yourself to First Impressions
Distance Yourself From the Problem
Learn to Objectively Evaluate the Threats and Consequences
Ignore Reactions, Focus on Improvements

Content: We often have a highly self-centered view on the world, leading us to think of all the bad ways a problem could affect us. But if you think of the problem as a separate entity, unrelated to you, you'll do a better job of tempering your emotions and thinking about the problem objectively. One helpful strategy to do this is to describe the problem as if it were happening to a friend: " Bob has a flat tire. He needs to pull off to the side of the road and either put on a spare or call a towing company." This helps you avoid the ego-centric emotional reactions that typically arise. Learn to Objectively Evaluate the Threats and Consequences
Your next step is to isolate the real threats and consequences of a problem from your exaggerated or imaginary ones. Doing so will help you shift your focus from seeing the problem as a burden or as a destructive force to seeing the problem as a neutral force that allows you to take action. Whenever you face a problem, make a physical or mental list of all the significant negative consequences it will have. Solidifying a comprehensive list will typically illustrate that your problem is not as destructive as it seemed on the surface;