The top five quotes happy people live by. This is your daily message from Chad number 592 and this message is dedicated to Ed Smith author of Sixty Seconds to Success.

1. The happiest people are not the ones without problems. They are the people who know how to solve their problems. – Dr Robert Seashore, former chair of psychology at Northwestern.

2. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than new solutions. – John Maxwell.

3. Don’t hate or avoid problems. Problems are an asset. Not something to avoid, but something to run towards. The definition of business is problems. A profitable business is a problem-solving machine. Success lies not in the elimination of problems, but in the art of creative, profitable problem-solving. -Brad Jacobs, author of How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

4. All businesses have problems. It’s the problems that create the opportunities. If a business is easy, every simple bastard would enter it. My point is that a businessperson who complains about problems doesn’t understand where his bread is coming from. -Joe Coulombe, Founder of Trader Joe’s

5. What makes Pixar special is that we acknowledge we will always have problems, many of them hidden from our view; that we work hard to uncover these problems, even if doing so means making ourselves uncomfortable; and that, when we come across a problem, we marshal all of our energies to solve it. -Ed Catmull, creative genius behind Pixar

Happy people see differently. They are comfortable being uncomfortable. They see problems as opportunities. They use problems to get better and that makes them happy. Do you have any words of wisdom about dealing with problems? Send me your input at fromchadsmith@gmail.com or leave a comment.