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The Nature of Problems - Part 4

What makes a real problem then? One good measurement is this: Will your decision on it be important to anyone ten years from now? If it will, then you've got a real problem—one that could call for real mental application and all the creative energy you can muster. And, chances are you have more problems than you realize that are just that important—they will affect someone else's life ten years from now.

Are you a parent? Every day you have problems—and the way you handle them can mean the difference between a responsible citizen or a juvenile delinquent in ten years.

Are you thinking about buying a house? In ten years the house you buy now will still be important to you and your family as a home.

How about your job? If you are an executive or a supervisor— or just someone that other people come to for advice—the way you advise other people may, in ten years, be responsible for the kind of people they are, or the attitude they have toward their job, or even whether your company will still be in business.

But in ten years it won't be important whether you wore your brown suit or your gray one today. And chances are you your­self won't remember what you had for lunch this noon even ten days from now.

There is a corollary that should be noted here, however: Almost every big problem faced by anyone was at one time a little problem. The reason it became big was that the responsible person missed the clues which indicated that it could or would grow.

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