The air conditioner breaks down for the third time, requiring a maintenance call to fix it again. The road’s potholes that get covered over repeatedly with more asphalt. The makeshift fix to get your faucet to stop leaking.
You can patch the problem temporarily to things running quickly. This can be critical when time or money cannot be spared.
However, it’s important to recognize the difference from a temporary patch versus fixing the core issue. By going to the root cause and doing the appropriate fix, you can prevent many future problems. This can save you even more time or money in the long-run.
All too often in our haste to get a quick patch, we overlook properly fixing the issue.