Today I had to deal with a situation that I wasn't looking forward to. I don't like confrontations and I had to do just that. A person with whom I'd entered into a contractual agreement was trying to get out of our agreement. I was in a breakfast meeting with this person and thought about avoiding her, in hopes that the problem would go away. As I headed for the door, a friend stopped me. This friend knew the situation and how much it had affected me. He said, "What we ignore persists, what we confront goes away" -- that moved me to turn around and talk to the person I wanted to avoid. I am glad I did. We are working out the problem, and towards a situation that we're both willing to live with.
Sometimes when it's hard to do something, and you think that ignoring it will make it go away - you're actually making your life harder. I'm glad I listened to the advice:
"What we ignore persists. What we confront goes away."
