"Stop Treating Symptoms"

You've got to look at the root cause.

I choose, in my life, to take a look at the problems that I face,

And dig and dig and dig and dig and dig until I find the root cause.

Sometimes, what I have found,

Is that the best way to do that…

Is to ask why again and again?

Well, why did that happen?

Okay. One level deeper.

Why did that happen?

Okay. One level deeper.

Why did that happen?

You keep going, keep going, keep going until you find something.

The check engine light that I look for, that tells me that I'm not getting to the root cause?

Is when the same problem happens more than once, it happens two, three, four times…

The same-ish problem, you know, it's not going to be exactly the same,

But if it's close enough and similar enough,

There's a root cause that I'm not addressing, which leads me to ask why a bunch of times,

And then actually address that root cause.

No matter how hard it is.

No matter how difficult it is.

No matter how painful or annoying or hard and difficult it might be,

I keep going until I finish the job and cover that whole root cause,

Until it won't cause any other problems of that same nature ever again.

So where in your life are you just looking at the symptoms and not treating the root causes?

Talk soon...

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