See It. Name It. Solve It: The Freedom That Comes With Clarity
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Let’s be honest, we’ve all had those days — the ones where life feels heavier than usual. You wake up feeling off, drained, or just stuck. You try to push through, but it’s like your energy and your confidence clocked out without you.
That was me this past week.
I hit a moment where everything felt like too much. I was juggling responsibilities, plans, and expectations — and instead of feeling inspired, I felt overwhelmed. The more I talked about it, the more frustrated I became. So I did what many of us do when we’re trying to “process” things...... I vented.
And one day, during one of those venting sessions, a mentor of mine listened quietly. She didn’t interrupt. She didn’t rush me. She just let me get it all out.
When I finally ran out of words, she said something that shifted everything:
“Tiffanie, you’ve spent ten minutes identifying the problem, but not one minute identifying a solution.”
Whew.
That truth hit me deep — not as judgment, but as a revelation. I realized I had become so focused on naming what was wrong that I hadn’t started building what could make it right.
Step 1: See It — Awareness Is the Beginning
You can’t change what you won’t confront.
That’s the power of seeing. Sometimes the first step isn’t action — it’s awareness. It’s pausing long enough to look your frustration in the face and say, “Okay, what’s really going on here?”
When you allow yourself to see the problem for what it is — not what it feels like — you start separating the situation from your self-worth. You start realizing that being stuck doesn’t mean you’ve failed; it just means you’ve paused somewhere that needs clarity before movement.
Seeing is sacred. It’s your mind saying, “I’m ready to stop running from this.”
Step 2: Name It — Call the Thing What It Is
Once I saw the real source of my frustration, I had to name it.
Sometimes we say, “I’m tired,” when really, we’re overwhelmed.
We say, “I’m unmotivated,” when really, we’re disconnected.
We say, “I’m stuck,” when really, we’re afraid to move in a new direction.
When you call it what it is, you take its power back.
Naming it gives you the language to work with it. Because what we can name, we can navigate.
For me, I realized my “stuckness” wasn’t about my work — it was about my mindset. I was trying to hold myself to impossible standards, and when I couldn’t meet them, I spiraled into frustration. Once I named that truth, I had something real to work on.
Step 3: Solve It -> Small Steps, Real Shifts
Now here’s where the real magic happened.
Once my mentor helped me realize I was camping out in the problem, she challenged me: “Okay, now that you’ve identified it what are five things you can do to make it better?”
At first, I rolled my eyes (because, same). But I wrote them down anyway.
And here’s what I noticed... even writing out potential solutions gave me momentum.
Some didn’t work. Some only helped a little. But all of them moved me out of paralysis and back into purpose.
That’s the thing about solving — it’s not about fixing everything at once. It’s about creating energy around progress. Every small step is a message to your mind that says, “We’re not stuck anymore.”
Freedom Starts With Clarity
Clarity doesn’t just quiet the chaos — it gives you direction.
When you see it, name it, and start solving it, you move from helplessness to power. You stop rehearsing the problem and start rehearsing solutions.
You start showing up differently. You start speaking differently. You start believing differently.
Because once you get clear, you get free.
And that’s what the “Free Your Mind” journey is really about not pretending life is perfect, but learning how to stay powerful even when it’s not.
Your Fresh. Fly. & Free. Reminder:
Clarity is the first step to conquering.
When you identify the real problem, you’ve already started building the solution.
So this week, when you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure... pause.
See it. Name it. Solve it.
Because the moment you do, you’re no longer just surviving the situation and you’re creating your freedom through it.