Which do you handle better in your personal life: one big problem or several small ones?

Neither. Every problem is annoying to me and I’m not good at solving problem.

I can handle either pretty much. Although getting pecked to death by a duck sounds like a major pain in the ass.

I am the proverbial multi-tasker and am expert at shoving smaller problems to the side or delegating others to handle the small stuff while I deal with the bigger problems.

I am a problem solver and always have been. I juggle (don’t say it ucme!) many balls every minute of my life at work and home, and formulate a plan to solve them all, get those plans in process and thus I don’t stress as much as others who just stew on the problems.

Focus, plan and execute = less stress/ more happiness

I am much better at crises than the smaller ones. Like you said, it feels like being pecked to death.

Life is one big problem made up of several small ones.

I approach life with enough flexibility that I often bend but I will never break.

and a few properly administered beers don’t hurt . . .

@Blondesjon Excellent answer!

I’m a problem solver, and just tackle whatever whatever comes along, as it comes along. I don’t see them as problems so much as challenges to negotiate.

However, like you, @tedibear, I would probably prefer a single crisis. It’s more rewarding to solve.

I have had many big crisis at one time. Sometimes I am a hero and other times I have had the driver of a the vehicle stop at the side of the road because I couldn’t breath. :/ Yes panic attack, the worse ever.

I think if things either small or big become too overwhelming for me that’s when I sometimes have an issue.

Also I was not on the right amount of drugs at that time.

Usually I can manage crisis. I prefer not to have them though.

Right now I’m managing to not die from the flu. Lol. I want my routine back. 3 days I’ve lost 12 pounds. Am I even making sense..is this a dream?

I’d rather have the many little problems. When they’re solved, they really are solved. That’s not always the case with bigger ones.

Big ones require my attention. I have found that most small problems are not really problems only irritants and that I can ignore them and the vast majority of the time the either solve themselves or are revealed to be non-issues after all.