5 Easy Steps That Crush Any Problem Life Throws At You

Step 1: Accept That The Problem Exists

Accepting that you have a problem is the most stupidly obvious step in coming up with a solution -- but it's also the most difficult. Addicts know what I'm talking about. It's called "denial," and it doesn't just manifest in crackheads and conspiracy theory nutjobs.

For many years, I was a complete douchebag to virtually everyone online, including people on our own forums. I had convinced myself that the world was full of dumbasses, and that I was the only one who truly "got it." So when someone said something that I disagreed with, I would explode at them and do my best to make them feel like a mental abortion. It took me every bit of a decade to finally realize, "Wait a minute. You might have some anger issues. And probably a significant case of narcissism. It's probably time to evaluate yourself before someone figures out where you live and gun-fucks your suckhole."

Admitting that was hard. It made me feel flawed. Weak. Dirty. Again, it sounds really obvious -- especially in hindsight -- but that admission was what kicked me into "fix your shit" mode. You can't take a crap on the surface of Mars before they build the ship that takes you there.

What It Looks Like In Action:

In the above video, Joey Ryan has found himself locked into a hold known in the wrestling world as "a cock claw" -- or, for more hardcore fans, "a cock and balls claw." In this situation, an average wrestler would panic and submit. But as we'll soon see, Mr. Ryan has mastered the art of problem-solving.

A mere three seconds into the video, Joey's facial expression changes from blind terror ...

... to calm and collected:

The above image is the exact second in which Joey has accepted his current predicament as a problem -- the moment when he can begin to formulate a solution. It's not something he needed to dedicate several hours of self-reflection to in order to deduce. It's more like an instinct. A subconscious buzz which produces an impulse.

In a fraction of a second, his subconscious has told him, "Your dick and a not-insignificant portion of your balls are currently locked into the vise-like grip of a large Japanese wrestler. This is a fact. That is really happening to you right now."

From there, Joey can do one of two things. He can ignore it and hope that his opponent stops doing that, or he can accept that it's a problem and formulate a plan to do something about it. In this particular problem, the goal of the other wrestler, Danshoku Dino, is to win the match by forcing his opponent to submit from the pain. So it is best deduced that he is not in fact going to stop squeezing Joey's dick. It is not in his best interest.

Once Joey has accepted this fact, he moves on to the next step ...

Step 2: Consider Your Options And Make A Plan Of Action

Let's say that you just got fired from your job at the zoo as a panda tickler, because you often confuse "tickling" for "punching in the face." You've accepted this as a problem, and now it's time to solve your current issue of "I have no money, and where the hell am I going to find another panda to tickle into unconsciousness?"

Your options are limited, but this isn't impossible. You could possibly get work at a wildlife reserve. Or, failing that, you could compromise the fine details of your skill set and learn to suplex giraffes. Or maybe just whip around some snakes while making "WHOOSH" noises with your mouth. Once you've settled on the options, it's just a matter of making your plan of action -- which is likely just handing out resumes and following up with various threats to potential employers until they crack from the fear and hire you.

What It Looks Like In Action:

Once Joey accepts that Dino is not going to relinquish his cock hold, he has to devise a way out of it. He must first consider his options:

- Accept defeat.
- Apply a greater amount of pain to his opponent, forcing him to let go.
- Perform a counter move that would secure his freedom.

This is a great illustration of knowing how to pick your battles. Defeat is not an option for Joey, because wrestling is how he makes his living. If he wants the money and the fame, he must win this match. So right off the bat, he can cross his first option off the list -- or at least move it down to the last resort.

His second option is better but not perfect. Obviously, Danshoku has not yet been worn down enough to be defeated by retaliation strikes, so punching him would have little or no effect. Kicking is also out of the question, because his dong is currently locked into a devastating hold. And since all wrestlers know that the penis is a man's center of gravity, kicks lose all power and accuracy.

Joey decides that this problem would be most efficiently solved by his third option: a counter maneuver. We're only six seconds into the video, and Mr. Ryan is already well on his way to conquering his pecker-crushing demons.

Now it's time to ...

Step 3: Execute Your Plan

This is where you get up off of your ass and do it. Where you actually write the resumes and send them off. Where you don't just decide to quit your addictions; you throw the vice away, or talk to a real-life, flesh-and-blood doctor to put the plan into motion. Far too many people have a plan of action, but keep it in a mental box marked "Someday Soon." Trust me when I tell you that the longer you put off the physical act of executing your plan, the less likely you are to ever do it.

The trick here is, when it's possible, to use your problem against itself. Recovering alcoholics do this all the time. The problem isn't the booze -- it's the addictive behavior itself. People who have successfully recovered know that, and they learn to point that addictive behavior in positive directions: hobbies, exercise, charity work ... something which helps occupy that obsessive part of their brain, instead of filling it with whatever poison has been slowly killing them.

Your problem is that you lost your job? Use that sudden burst of free time to find another one. Disgusted with your body? Use that disgust as motivation to get down on the floor and do some sit-ups. You're not funky enough to win the 40th Annual Funk-Off Competition? I'm afraid you're just out of luck there. You're either funky or you aren't. Cameo didn't practice to be Cameo. They just were.

What It Looks Like In Action:

Once Joey decides that the best course of action is to perform a counter move, he wastes no time in executing his plan. He knows that the longer he puts it off, the worse his dick pain is going to get. Not acting on it right away puts him at risk of losing consciousness from the immense pressure on his cock and balls. So without a second thought, he rounds up all of the strength he can muster and flexes his penis, redirecting the pressure from his tubesteak back into Dino's arm.

Then, when the time is right, he uses his big ol' floppy hog to whip his opponent across the ring.

The very dick which was the center of his dick problems becomes his dick solution. And the total amount of time it took for Joey to go from dick hold to dick toss? Twenty-two seconds. He used three simple steps to free his dick from his opponent's dick-crushing grip.

But take note of what happens after he tosses Dino. He does something important -- something that very few people remember to do after solving a problem ...

Step 4: Acknowledge Your Victory

You won. You need to celebrate. That sounds stupid, doesn't it? Trust me, it's not. There's a pretty important reason to do this.

It's pretty likely that you're going to encounter something much worse in your life than what you just went through. By acknowledging your current victory, you're committing it to memory in a powerful way. The next time life dumps you headfirst into a vat of horseshit, you'll unpack that memory as a positive reminder that you can handle this.

Those mental reinforcements are the practice sessions which lead to you making tough decisions quickly and efficiently.

What It Looks Like In Action:

Joey Ryan knows this. His celebration for the crowd is monumental for him, because he knows that this will not be the last claw hold that he finds his dick in. There will be bigger wrestlers with much stronger gripping power. If he's to survive them, then he must be confident that he has the ability to dick-toss them all. By celebrating his victory, he's training his brain to remember, "I know I can fling a guy across the ring with my cock, because I've done it. And I will do it again. Right now, in fact. Here I go."

Without that positive reinforcement, his expert display of problem-solving prowess could easily be misconstrued by his brain as a fluke. But it wasn't a fluke. You saw the same video I saw. Maybe not as many times as I've watched it, but you've seen it. What you saw there was pure dick skill. If he doesn't know that right down to his very pecker-throwing essence, then this was a wasted moment, and his future self will suffer for it.

But all of that being said, sometimes you're going to find your throbstick in a claw hold that's just too powerful to break. In these instances, as sad as it is to say, you have to ...

Step 5: Accept That It's Out Of Your Control, And Learn To Cope

The most painful problems are the ones you can do nothing about. If you try to figure out solutions to unsolvable problems (an incurable illness, the death of a loved one), you'll drive yourself insane. Sometimes, you just have to accept that a problem is beyond your control, and learn to shovel the shit that life dumped into your bed.

That doesn't mean giving up. It means that you have to accept this problem as a part of your life, without letting it take away from everything else that's good. I have a couple of friends who are confined to wheelchairs, and for the longest time, it mentally destroyed them. They went through long stretches of depression because they were so focused on all of the ways life was suddenly harder that they forgot to enjoy the stuff they loved, like video games and panda tickling.

The same thing happened with several of my family members who had terminal cancer. Every one of them justifiably went through massive depression. And every one of them eventually arrived at the same lesson: "I could let this destroy me, or I can make the most out of the time I have left." And they did. They had great relationships and left wonderful legacies. I'm proud of them. That's some real fucking strength right there.

What It Looks Like In Action:

Almost as much strength as Joey Ryan's dick when he used it to whip Dino across the ring.

See, Dino's downfall was not accepting that the problem was beyond his ability to steer. Once Joey started flexing his thong snake and Dino felt its raw power shooting through his arm, he should have just let go. Instead, he was under the delusion that he could still control the uncontrollable.

His match would have gone so much more smoothly if he had just realized that this was one penis that he could not grip into submission, released the beast, and then came at the fight with a new plan. One that didn't involve a handful of superpowered cock. Instead, he continued to force the issue and got himself nut-slapped across the ring.

Don't let yourself get dick-whipped across life's wrestling ring. Slow down and ask yourself, "Is this pecker worth the claw hold?" I mean, it never hurts to try, but if you find yourself being mastered by that dick, at least have the presence of mind to know when to just let it go and move on with the match.

For more life-changing advice from John Cheese, check out 5 Things That Have To Happen Before You Fix Your Crappy Life. And learn that fighting for what you believe in isn't always the best move in 5 Common Pieces Of Advice That Are Almost Always Wrong.

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