Oscar’s Story
How do you resolve household maintenance issues in your home? Does someone take the lead, or are you like our household, where everyone expects “someone else” to deal with it?
What happens if a major appliance breaks down - especially if it’s something you rely on? In our household we don’t have budding repair people who are willing and able to fix problem machines, and we didn’t have an agreed system in place when the dryer died, which is why it stayed virtually broken for nearly six months.
Our old dryer had one setting that still worked, so we just made do with it as it was. We accepted its limitations and reduced its capability.
Finally – after many months of frustration, and a wet winter upon us – somebody took the initiative and rang a repair service. They arrived on our doorstep and took very little time to diagnose and repair the trusty dryer. It was like magic. We were grateful for their expertise, and our household was able to function with clean, dry clothes again.
Think about how this would work in your household. Who would take the lead in this scenario? Pause for a moment and assess how you and your family address other things that don’t work in your household, like a career or a relationship.
What’s your family’s usual strategy?
Do you find an expert immediately?
Do you throw out the old and attempt to find something new?
Do you hope that somehow it will start working again without any additional help?
Or do you reduce your expectations and settle for how things are now?
The difference between the person who can fix something and the person who can’t is knowledge of how that something works. That’s the game changer. An expert can diagnose and treat. A novice guesses and assumes and will often give up, frustrated, without finding a resolution. That was how we approached our dryer dilemma.
The more I understood how the mind works, the better Genius You became at addressing the parts of a person’s life that weren’t working at full capability.
