For a few weeks, the handle on the back door of my house had been squeaking. It began to get worse.

Yesterday, I took a screwdriver, disassembled the knob, lubricated the mechanical components, and put everything back together.

The entire task took less than five minutes.

As a result, the handle now works smoothly and quietly — better than I can ever remember.

I wondered: why did I wait so long to attend to this?

So it is with many things in life. Small issues grow over time. Little things become big things. Then, they get to a point where we can ignore them no longer.

But often, the fixes are simple. We just need to give them attention.

And then we wonder: why did we wait so long?

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Is there something in your life that could use fixing? Could the solution — or at least the beginning of it — be within reach … if only it had your focused attention?