Stuff bugs us, that is normal. Letting irritants fester like a wound is more damaging than the cause of the issue in the first place. At the risk of sounding like the hit song from the movie Frozen, “Let it go”.
Resolving things that bother you is much easier said than done, but consciously reaching an acceptable solution, something you can live with, is far less painful than hanging on.
It’s a process
The process to resolve those things that are bugging you is a standard series of steps:
- What’s the issue and why does it bug you?
- What is the optimal solution?
- What is the minimum you could accept to consider the problem resolved?
- What steps do you need to take to achieve either the best or minimally acceptable solution or something in between?
Asking yourself the four questions, in the order presented, will provide you with a way to close the issue. The key, of course, is making sure the minimally acceptable solution is positively something that will allow you to “let it go”.
Execution
Identifying the problem, the way to resolve it and the steps to do so, leads to execution. That is actually taking the action to conclude and close the thing that is bugging you.
This needs to be precipitous. The longer you wait the more chance that the problem will fester into something larger and the cure will be more difficult. Heal yourself while you can, don’t wait for septicemia to set in.
