Quote of the Day: Anthony J. D'Angelo on Time & Perspective

It is 7:12 AM, coffee cooling on the counter, and your inbox is already a small riot, missed deadlines, a tense message from someone you care about, a plan that suddenly looks naïve. Your mind does what it always does under pressure: it replays what went wrong, searches for who’s to blame, and quietly predicts more damage ahead. In that tight, familiar spiral, Anthony J. D'Angelo offers a clean instruction: “Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.”

The ratio is not a math problem; it’s a mental budget. Problems are greedy, they expand to fill every available hour, especially in December, when deadlines collide with expectations and the year’s unfinished business demands an audit. Spending “just a little more time” analyzing what happened can feel responsible, even virtuous. But past a point, diagnosis becomes disguise: rumination dressed up as strategy.

A solution focus doesn’t deny reality. It gives reality a time limit. Ten percent is enough to name the issue, identify constraints, and locate the true root, then it’s time to pivot to what’s controllable: the next call, the draft, the apology, the experiment. That pivot is where resilience is built, not in avoiding setbacks, but in translating them into movement. Teams and families shift, too, when conversation turns from “Why is this happening?” to “What can we try by noon?” That’s how leadership looks in ordinary life: fewer post-mortems, more momentum.

Anthony J. D'Angelo has spent decades in personal development, leadership, and entrepreneurship, work that lives or dies by the ability to move from obstacle to action. His advice is pragmatic because progress is pragmatic.

On this December Sunday, when the calendar tempts us to measure everything we didn’t finish, treat your attention like capital. Invest it where returns are possible: in one concrete step that makes the problem smaller and the future larger.