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When you have an injury or an illness you've had for a long time, and you are able to finally free yourself from it, there is frequently a realization that comes over you - "I was in a lot of pain". You didn't realize it at the time, but once its gone…

The same can be said for anything you've been putting up with. My computer has been slowing down, but since it was a bit at a time, I hadn't really noticed until last week. Then the hard drive gave me errors. Off to the Apple store on Friday. We reinstalled the operating system - at least that was the plan. It wouldn't install, so they diagnosed a bad hard drive. Still no deal to reinstall the operating system. So they kept it for two days.

Diagnosis? Bad third party ram. Three hundred fifty bucks later and I have to admit, that I've been putting up with a really slow system. Now, its a rocket. Granted, I don't have all my programs installed yet, but its very fast.

In the coaching world, something you put up with is known as a toleration. Many of us deal with a toleration by sticking our heads in the sand. If its a person, the toleration individual frequently takes advantage of the fact that they are being tolerated.

Learn to take your tolerations by the horn and deal with them. Procrastination has no place here, especially with an employee. If you're tolerating an employee, they know it. Your miserable, and chances they are too.

Come up with a plan - is this person someone who is willing to work with you on the issues or not? If so, time to have a sit down. Discuss all the issues, even the uncomfortable ones that are causing the toleration. But more then likely, you're going to end up asking them to leave. Once the toleration is gone, you're going to find that you feel better. In fact, you'll find out you were tolerating pain you didn't know about.

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