There are definitely things you can’t control. OK. Accepted.

Everything else then.

If something is a problem – something you can control – you fix it. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. You sniff out the cause, prescribe the solution, take the actions necessary and get on with the rest of your list.

But if something’s been a problem for a while, something you can control, and you haven’t fixed it, then the problem isn’t the problem, you are.

You compromised.

You accepted the problem as worth more than the solution – by omission maybe, for the sake of politics possibly, or simply because it’s easier in the moment (and the next moment, and in this moment). Reasons, just not good ones.

Every time you ignore a problem, not only is the problem still there, but everyone knows that you’re ignoring it. (And they start to second guess.)

Skippy strategy: Deal with it.