Problem-Solving Works with Right Focus

• Garden will teach you an easy and effective system of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
• Problem Solved! 3Rs will teach you efficient problem-solving skills.

“Better choose better.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

How to Solve a Problem

1. To solve a problem, first deal with your problem about the problem.
2. To solve a problem, first deal with how poorly you treat the problem.
3. To solve a problem, first deal with correcting your approach to the problem.
4. To solve a problem, first deal with your problematic reactions and relationship to the problem.

Why Is Your Problem with Your Problem Most Important?

Your problem with your problem makes your problem worse by:

• adding to it.
• resorting to blaming and damning instead of problem-solving.
• resorting to anxiety or depression instead of coping.
• trying to change its reality.
• trying to control its reality.
• trying to deny or suppress it.
• or other ineffective methods that merely serve to continue and increase the problem from the outside.

Problem-Solve the Problem’s Problem

1. Your problem with your problem is your problem’s best friend and supporter.
2. Counter-intuitively, you’ll often find that your problem with your problem is just like it.
3. Trying to fix a problem without first fixing the main problematic responses to it is like trying to roof a house before building that house.
4. If you try to focus on a problem without first addressing the problematic way that the problem is treated, then despite your best efforts you will fail to fix the problem.
5. Working on the problems about a problem first is a systems approach versus a symptomatic approach that ignores the related and sustaining problems that occur along with a problem.