If you want to survive changes and achieve your goals now is time to step up your efforts. Focus on your business, not on all obstacles. Remodel your website, freshen your copy. Start a new marketing campaign. Keep your name out there while your competitors are still whining and wringing their hands.

Now is not time to slough off and put that "Gone Fishing" sign on your door! Many of your competitors will do just that. Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to make giant strides toward your own success. Since change is inevitable . . . use it to improve your position in marketplace.

When Dust Settles . . .

If you stay focused on your goals while many others are running around like proverbial "chicken with its head cut off", who's going to end up winner?

Change can be a good thing; don't let fear of it paralyze you. What's more, don't let it defeat you! If you want to succeed you have to adapt to changes and move on . . . always toward your goals.

So take a deep breath and get back to work, knowing that when dust finally settles you're going to be right where you want to be . . . at head of pack!

“How would you go about building a keyboard for 1-handed users?”

“How would you build an alarm clock for deaf people?”

Interesting aren’t they? Were you disturbed by these questions? Or were you fascinated by possibilities they presented? I can understand why Microsoft is such a successful organization when creativity of this nature is expected right from outset.

Internet Marketing Expert, Mark Hendricks said it best when he stated;

“Problems have solutions, they are made that way.”

Apply this logic to your life and business!

It seems that software developers at Microsoft first ask themselves, “what is it that they want to experience?” Then, they build a belief system to ensure that experience is created. This is incredibly shrewd wisdom that we can all apply to our lives and businesses. When I confronted questions for first time I couldn’t help but sympathize with those prospective employees who had perfect scholastic records but lacked attitude to cultivate their imaginations. Quite often success in life has very little to do with book smarts and much more to do with cultivating an unrecognized opportunity.

So what is it that you want to experience in your life or business?

Believe it or not, limitations live only in your mind. But if you use your imagination, your possibilities become limitless.  It all  depends upon questions that you constantly ask yourself.

Those individuals who live truly fulfilling lives discover that they have managed to challenge their current realities by confronting their imaginations for what is possible. How quickly can you change your beliefs about what is possible?

Albert Einstein once said that “the mind that solves a problem is very different from mind that first confronted it.” From this simple statement we can begin to appreciate that within every question lies either a prison of limitations or an endless series of possibilities. The choice is clearly yours.

So next time you are confronted with a problem in your business or personal life that seems monumental, I challenge you to ask yourself….”Why are manhole covers round?” That ought to change your focus around long enough to be able to look at problem through a new set of eyes.

Harald Anderson is co-founder of http://www.artinspires.com a leading online art gallery specializing in motivational posters and inspirational prints. “When Art Inspires, Dreams Become Realities.” His goal in life is to become kind of person his dog thinks he is.

Harald Anderson is the co-founder of http://www.artinspires.com a leading online art gallery specializing in motivational posters and inspirational prints. “When Art Inspires, Dreams Become Realities.” His goal in life is to become the kind of person his dog thinks he is.