Getting to the Source
Published: Wed, 10/28/15
Hi,
How's it going for you today?
I hope it's a good day for you.
I want to tell you about this situation that my
friends were in…
Because I think there is a lesson that we can
all learn from it.
They lived in this huge apartment complex.
I mean HUGE!
There were like 3,000 people that lived in this
apartment complex!
And the thing was that it looked real nice on the
outside and all…
At least to the naked eye…
And at least in dry weather.
But here’s the rub –
When it rained…
The parking lots all flooded!
That’s because they weren’t paved right to begin
with.
But you couldn’t see that to the naked eye when the
weather was dry…
You could only see it when it rained.
So here’s what happened:
So many of the tenants complained that management
finally decided to do something about it.
Great, huh?
NOT!
Well…
They got the pavers to come out…
And they inconvenienced the tenants by making
them go all the way around the paver’s blockades to
get to their respective apartments while the work
was being done
(which they didn’t mind, because they thought
well at least the parking lot was finally getting
paved and no more flooding, right? WRONG!)
The next time it rained…
The parking lots flooded even WORSE!
That’s because all the pavers did was PATCH the
parking lots where they were at their worse.
They never fixed the REAL problem at its SOURCE.
So here’s the lesson I think we can learn, just like I
talk about in my courses/systems:
When you’re solving problems, you have to get to
them at their SOURCE.
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Or else they’re going to keep coming back at you
again and again and again, just like that flooded
apartment parking lot.
If you’re having problems with your loved one and
their bipolar disorder, for example, you can’t just
“patch” them and expect things to get better.
Oh, they might get better for a little while…
But then the problem is just going to reassert
itself, possibly even worse.
Say, for example:
You want to stop the fighting.
So you just start getting real quiet.
And the fighting may stop for awhile…
But since you never discussed with your loved one
the source of the fighting…
Nothing is really resolved…
And eventually the fighting will start up again.
It’s just inevitable.
Because you never really solved the problem.
You never went to the SOURCE.
In this case, you need to talk to your loved one
about what is causing you to fight in the first
place.
You need to practice this strategy whatever the
problem is that you’re facing.
As long as you go to the source, you have the best
chance of actually solving the problem and not
just patching it up.
What do you think?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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