problems versus constraints

Full disclosure: This is a straight pull from Seth Godin, but I feel it really is an awesome point worthy of further discussion. 

Problems are things to which you can develop a solution and solve.  Constraints are things to which you must live with and work around.  The art of telling the difference is the chore.  It's quite easy to consider everything a problem, but that would be a mistake.  Even if you could solve a myriad of complex and expensive challenges, your ability to focus and ship a product is threatened if you bite off more than you can chew.  Furthermore, our ability to solve particular problems has a direct correlation with our credibility and capability to solve them in the first place. 

Save the fact that the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerburg is amongst us, you will likely not change the fabric of the way we interact in life, but maybe you can chip away at it.  Scale. 

Go Make Something Happen.