First principle that pertains to all problems according to Schuller:

1. Every human being has problems:

What is your problem? Are you unemployed for example? If you're an impossibility thinker you probably think that a job would solve all your problems. The truth is that employed people have problems too. Countless people have jobs they don't like. They are giving five days a week to unhappiness. They work to live rather than live to work.
Some people think their problems stem from the fact that they have to report to a boss. They falsely assume that they would be happy if they could be self-employed. It's true that they might find more enjoyment in such a working arrangement, but many self-employed people have more problems than those who work for others.
Everyone has problems, the employer as well as the employee.
Is retirement the answer? Retired people have their problems - boredom, not feeling productive or useful!
Successful People! Surely they are exempt from problems? Wrong!
The point is clear: Nobody is free from problems. A problem free life is an illusion - a mirage in the desert. It is a dangerously deceptive perception, which can mislead, blind and distract. To pursue a problem free life is to run after an elusive fantasy; it is a waste of mental and physical energies Every living human person has problems. Accept that fact and tune in next week for the second principle - 'Every problem has a limited life span'.