The 'little' things...

  It's those 'little things', those minor inconveniences or little irritants in one's life that can be or become large stumbling stones in our journey's future. Problem is that they won't simply fade away. You know they have to be addressed but you continue to put it off. Uninvited, if they aren't dealt with though, they tend to loom right in our line of vision.  I'm beginning to think that it's how we handle these issues rather than the issues themselves that are more telling and more indicative of who we are.

  What do you do with your 'little' things? There are a number of choices we have. Since these items are not crisis issues we can delay our response till a more convenient (however you define the word) time. Problem #2 is when the 'little' issues become a much larger problem, and we have no alternative except to finally face them. At that time we may be in crisis decision making mode which is rarely the best reasoned approach. Most of the time we really don't think that these 'little' things will grow, even though our experience tells us they will. I suspect we simply don't want to be bothered.

  Why do we do this? I can provide all sorts of scenarios that may be your excuse at the moment but it's the behavior of procrastination that we really need to address. Most of us in most of these procrastinations have other 'things' on our plates that are either more immediate or more interesting. Because... most of the 'little things' are not new, we simply haven't dealt with the underlying problem. It really isn't that we are unaware, we simply - don't. Maybe we think it is too difficult or not a 'terrible' problem or ...

  The longer we put off facing our 'little things' the more they can become rather large boulders in our journey. Eventually they will demand being dealt with and my experience is that it is rarely at an opportune moment. Logic aside, as we face these issues it would seem, on hindsight, that it is possible to develop strategies to address our 'little things' so they don't grow. If we don't we'll continue to be rushing to handle, last minute, our 'little things'...

...but, what do you think?