Bruce Elkin 

Life Design Success Strategies for Creating What Matters Most in Life, Work, and Business

Barriers to Success: Limits of Problem Solving — and What We Can Learn About Creating Success in Life and Work 

Have you ever "solved" a problem- such as smoking or being overweight-only to find it keeps coming back, over and over again?

Have you ever "fixed" a problem only to find that your solution caused more grief than the problem?

When you are just about to achieve success does something undermine that success and move you back to where you began?

Do you oscillate between better then worse, then better then worse, then...?

Author Bruce Elkin says such dilemmas plague problem solving as a success strategy. These dilemmas explain why problem solving is not an effective way to produce success of any kind.

Even if you're good at it, problem solving is far from the key to success or the way to create what matters most in life, work, or relationships.

In Barriers to Success, Elkin addresses our personal, professional, and organizational reliance on problem solving - and shows why it not only rarely works, but often makes things worse.

He explains there are two kinds of situations we call problems. Conventional problem solving only solves one of them.

The other, which sees problems as challenges and opportunities is best approached from a creating stance and is a far superior success strategy, maybe even the key to the success we long for.

 

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"Barriers to Success is an important book! It shows how over-relying on problem solving causes worse problems. And shows us what to do about it. After reading this book, I can't wait to read Simplicity and Success to learn how to create what matters most-to create life success in spite of my "problems."

– Arren Hofstad, Green Entrepreneur, Seattle, WA

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Creating is a powerful key to producing success in anything that that truly matters to you.  

However, most of us do not know how to deliberately create what matters most to us. So we habitually default to problem solving as a success strategy. But, at best "solutions" merely bring us temporary relief from problems; at worst, the cure becomes worse than the disease.

Using careful analysis, insightful stories, and his own experience, Elkin describes five flaws in problem solving that prevent it from being a useful success strategy or from providing a practical key to success.

He shows us why problem solving fails to provide a solid platform on which to build a success strategy that works consistently. And why it so often wastes precious time, energy and resources.

The real key to success comes from rising above problems by shifting to the more senior and powerful success strategy of creating.

Creating what matters most is a more powerful success strategy because it embraces and transcends problem solving.

If you create as part of problem-solving, it is still problem solving. It will still fail to produce lasting success."

However if you solve problems as part of creating , solutions support results. Often your problems dissolve ; they fade away when faced with the higher life energy generated by creating what matters most.  

 

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"I loved this book. It helped me get a clearer understanding of the limits of problem solving and also see how much I tend to use it. Yikes! I've got my work caught out for me, if I want to shift to a creating stance and create the real career success and the life success I long for. I'm hoping it's the key to success for me."

- S. Taylor, Publishing Executive, Los Angeles, CA

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If you want deeper insight to why your efforts to create life success, personal success, career success, business success, career success, relationship success-including your relationship with the systems of life on which all health, wealth and well being depend- buy this book.

Barriers to Success does hold a key to success, outlines a successful success strategy, and points out the barriers to avoid. What more could you want?