Teddy Roosevelt (1858-1919), who served as the 26th president of the United States, once said the following: "Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining." While I admire Roosevelt's larger-than-life personality and his wide-ranging accomplishments -- from leading the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War to busting trusts to establishing a myriad of national parks -- I'd have to disagree with him on this one. I don't think complaining about a problem without proposing a solution necessarily means you're whining. Sometimes we're confronted with unexpected challenges that we may not know how to tackle immediately. We would then need some time to weigh our options, and if that bears no fruit, we'd likely seek support from friends, family, or a counselor. In general, we all have some sense of what we'd have to do to resolve a problem, but concrete solutions don't always come to us right away. It's ...