Lifeguards are told never to turn their back on the water. Some problems need watching, not avoiding.

A problem you can set down is a different thing from one that only stays manageable while you are looking at it. The second kind punishes avoidance quietly: grades, money, a friendship going cold, a small health thing. Watching is not the same as worrying. It is a scheduled glance that keeps a situation from turning into an emergency.

Name the one thing you have been not looking at and set a weekly time to check it, briefly, in daylight. Five minutes on a Sunday covers most of them. The checking is what keeps it small.