A problem might seem ominous or threatening, but if we call it "a project" instead, our approach to it changes; we view it as something that has a solution - a solution we are engaged in finding. In the same way, we can remind ourselves that our opportunities are often in exact proportion to our problems. Polio was a problem worldwide, but to Dr. Jonas Salk and his fellow researchers it was a project on which they were working and which they were successful in solving ... When we have a pressing problem - and who is without one for long - I think we need to take this intelligent attitude toward it. This is not a Pollyanna attitude, unless you want to call all the people who have been solving human problems for centuries Pollyannas. It is, rather, a very human, intelligent attitude.
-Earl Nightingale
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