No personal development happens without the inner crisis

I do not recall any big advances in my life when I didn't come through a sort of physical or emotional pressure in order to acheive certain advance.

You always have to make an effort to climb another footstep.

As the phycologist Julian Sleigh states, any problem or even crisis you encounter in life, can be used to develop yourself personally or professionally. It allows you to understand you inner "me" deeper. And this always leads to ballance in life.

Osho says the life problem doesn't need to be solved. It needs to be observed. Stand over it and look from outside. The problem will disappear.

It looks like it's very easy to eliminate the problem or crisis. And I tend to trust Osho as it was probably the wisest man of 20th century. But try to observe something, try to meditate. It's the world's most complicated thing I ever tried. This takes a lot of effort, not physical, of course, but mental, to free your mind from unnecessary garbage and clearly the the problem or to clearly see nothing. Although Osho says it should be no effort.

I remember well how I unblocked my French [language]. I was on a training in Paris and I knew I was subscribed to English list. Upon arrival, on a prebriefing just before the course began I saw the list and I didn't find myself in the only English group - I was mistakenly put in a French group. At that moment, I didn't really speak French - at least it was very hard to speak, there was this bareer. But after two days of enourmous effort, with only 10% understood, I found myself comfortable with French and it's fine since then. Not fluent, but comfortable.

My recent crisis, when I spent hours in social network during the end of quarter and failed the quarter actually, put me into dramatic hangover, with fever and other unpleasant stuff. I had to reconsider my attitude to work, to life sucking internet and other social networks, to be more focused, more organized. And it really works now.

I'm in a hotel room in Barnaul, Russia, hours before the inaguration of a new business partner.