Prevention requires imagination because you are investing in a problem you hope never appears.

Investing in a problem that has not appeared requires you to hold a vivid picture of something that may never happen, and to act on it. That is genuinely difficult, since the mind discounts the unreal, and it is why prevention loses so consistently to whatever is already in front of you.

Make the imagined failure concrete. Write down what would actually happen, in detail, if the thing you are neglecting failed next month. The specificity is what makes prevention feel worth doing.