The fire department work to enforce fire safety, ensuring that fires don’t start to begin with. However, if they do, they will also assist in putting them out. In a similar way a good strategy to living is to practice getting better at doing the things the immunise you from the difficulties you don’t want to have, as well as practicing better ways of overcoming challenges if they do happen.
Action: When focusing on difficulties, consider all the things that you can do to make them unlikely to happen in the first place, as well as what might be the best steps to take if they do happen. When focusing on goals, similarly reflect on what can be done to make it likely that the outcome will be achieved, as well as on ways that you can get the benefits of achieving the goal immediately.