Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Many of our problems already have solutions in waiting. And many of these are effective and inexpensive.

Person A: My kid won’t stop chewing on fill-in-the-blank.

Person B: Put a drop of fill-in-the-other-blank on it. It will taste bad, and the kid will stop chewing on it.

Person A: Oh.

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Person A: So-and-so is ineffective. We need to move him out, but we can’t seem to fire him.

Person B: Give So-and-so duties they dislike. They will quit.

Person A: Oh.

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These are but two of many unsolvable problems that have plenty of effective and inexpensive solutions. These solutions exist. They are kept in the Book of Effective and Inexpensive Solutions. That book is difficult to find and is expensive. It usually comes from The School of Hard Knocks. Thanks to the Internet, however, we can Google the questions and find the answers.

There are answers to most of life’s perplexing problems. We just have to stop being arrogant and become humble enough to ask for them.