When CPT Jack Fellowes USN POW returned from Vietnam he had 15 philosophies:

Never prejudge a person.

With attainment comes responsibility.
Are you in prison or free?
One must continually separate the important from the unimportant, thinking
about and acting on the important while letting the unimportant go.
It is unimportant what happens to you in life. What is important is what you do
about what happens to you.
The conscious mind can only think of one thing at a time.
Everything we experience in life acts as preparation for the future.
Your environment is not reality. Your perception of your environment is
reality.
Focus only on the solution to the problem and not on the problem itself.
Every time you vividly picture doing something you create a preset in your
self-image that improves the chances that you will act that way in the future.
No matter how bad our environment seems, others have endured more and
complained less.
We will not continue to think about a goal if there are not open doors waiting
for us to go through that make the goal attainable.
My job is not to try to direct life's events as much as it is to manage the
quality of my own participation in the events.
Attainment is the best way to measure success not just accomplishment alone.
God endows us with weapons to fight through adversity.

�With Attainment Comes Responsibility�

�If we strive for a successful life we must be prepared for the responsibility
of that success. To do less would cheapen the attainment. Less meaningful
accomplishments require little responsibility. As your accomplishments broaden so
should your desire to seek to become someone worthy of the position.�

Focusing on the solution infers you are focusing on the benefits of transforming
the problem into something positive, constructive and beneficial.

Before you can solve a problem, you need to know what exactly you�re trying to
solve. Unfortunately, too many of us want to rush to conclusions before clearly
understanding the problem. The author describes a four-step process that helps you
define the problem.
First, don�t just rely on the data. Take facts, especially observable ones, into
account.
Second, consider how you�re framing the problem statement. It should present the
problem in a way that allows for multiple solutions, and make sure it�s focused on
observable facts, not opinions, judgments, or interpretations.
Third, think backwards from the problem to analyze the potential factors that lead
to it.
Lastly, ask �why� repeatedly before you settle on a conclusion to make sure you
investigate root causes.
These four steps don�t guarantee a solution, of course. But they will provide a
more clearly defined problem, and while that�s less immediately gratifying, it�s a
necessary step to finding something that really works.