(originally published February 27th, 2006)

Over the past few days I’ve had a few friends who’ve had epiphanies in their lives. The odd thing about each of them is that I knew what was coming, and felt that I could have told each person what was going on, but didn’t think they’d listen to me.

I wrote once before about listening to one’s intuition, and this is another case of the same thing. In each of these circumstances, when I started to talk to the person about their issue, each one indicated that they had a feeling something was going on, but didn’t want to address it and hoped it would go away. But really, how often do issues just go away because you try to ignore it? How many health issues actually go away because you decide not to deal with it? How many problems around your house go away because you decide not to deal with it?

If you’re a manager, you can’t afford to just let things go when you have a feeling that something may be off. Not only could it be detrimental to the organization, but it could end up costing you your job. Because, at some point, someone isn’t going to ignore and hope something goes away; they’re going to make something go away.