Solutions One layer at a Time - a metaphor for the way many of us handle problems that appear larger than life - we jump head first into situations, without perhaps analysing the best plan of attack. We expend much of our energies without result. Although life can be much simpler than this, if only we could take the time to stand back, walk around and consider problems, we would discover nothing more complicated than a common onion – a series of simple layers that can be peeled back one at a time to uncover the central core that will answer all our deeper questions.