Think About It

I have several things in my office that have been in my office for a while. The particular problem with these items is that they don’t work – and haven’t for a while. Oh, when I set them aside I had every intention of getting them repaired, the problem is that once I set them aside, I kind of forgot about them. In the beginning, I probably thought, “Oh, I need to take care of that problem” but each time I didn’t do it, it became easier not to do anything. Eventually, they just became a part of the background of my office and I ignored them. If I did an inventory of my office, I would realize something needed to be done, but until then they aren’t much more of an afterthought (if even that). The reason I bring up my broken items is to show how easy it is to ignore things that are damaged – even people. Sure, if we look for them, we’ll see them. If we do a specific inventory of them or their issues, we’ll see them; however, until we do they have a tendency to just blend into the