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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.  Albert Einstein

Einstein is on to something here.  :)  It's so interesting to me that when I'm in the midst of trying to solve a problem that has been created by me, usually, that I do try to solve it by going backwards in my thought processes.  Meaning I take the same exact thought process and try to reverse it in hopes that the problem will unwind itself and be fixed.  I do this without really knowing I am.  I think most of us must since Einstein addressed it!  But if there's a problem the best course of action, for me and maybe for you to, is to stop - slow down - think clearly - and solve it with a new thought process, not the same tired one that created the problem in the first place!  Today's quote really mirrors one from a few days ago in which I also gave a loose definition of insanity.  It's the same idea here.  

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