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Handling Problems This Way Will Help Us Thrive
Applying the Theory of Constraints to Life
Mankind thirsts to live a problem free life. Why else are we spending so much time looking for answers. We can spend hours searching for things online. Another book arrives from Amazon promising to give us the information we need. That call to a therapist is sure to help or that session with the life coach. There are moves we can make, things we can quit, and stuff we can start. All maneuvers we make to solve problems and get back to living life. What if our thinking was all wrong?
What if problems are life. What if we don’t label them as good or bad? Some things run as they should and produce what we need them to. Some things don’t. Something is happening and we need to manage it. Look at the problem as a step in the process that isn’t working and decide what we can do to manage it so we can achieve the same results or better.
Author Eliyahu Goldratt referred to problems as bottle necks. They weren’t good or bad, but reality. Bottle necks prevent the process from meeting demand. Their capacity is equal to or less than what is needed. In a manufacturing plant a certain machine can become a bottle neck. In life people and things can become bottle necks. They keep us from producing enough to meet the demands of life. We have constructed a life that requires a certain amount…
