Number 3: You can’t let little problems go. This is a tough one for me. Sometimes I’d rather blow off the little problems and cross my fingers hoping they never develop into big problems. The problem is this: little problems always lead to big problems given time.

I remember when I was a kid I volunteered to burn the trash outside on a hot and dry day. I stuffed one too many things in that burn barrel and a gust of wind came through. The next thing I knew the grass had caught on fire. Of course, to a 12-year-old kid, I was petrified and knew that that the whole property was going to go up in flames and it was going to be my fault. It didn’t. We stopped the fire after a few minutes of spraying it with the water hose. The point? It’s easier to stop a spark then a blaze. Deal with the little problems today to save some big headaches tomorrow.