Life is a process:  a complex, ever-continuing, ever-changing set of problems.  The choice is not if you’ll accept problems, but how.  ~ Tim Hansel

When I first read that quote, I thought it was a downer to think of life as a series of problems to be addressed or ignored.  It’s true that one can’t go through life fully devoid of problems ~ unless one doesn’t get out of bed (but then that presents its own sets of challenges).

I prefer to re-frame problems as possibilities. It really is a matter of how one approaches life that makes the difference in whether we view situations as problems or possibilities.  Problem sounds daunting; possibility sounds hopeful.  I’m not being a pollyanna.  It’s the glass-half-full or glass-half-empty mindset, and it’s more empowering for me to take mine half full.