Isn’t it interesting how the term ‘quick fix‘ became a put-down.

Personally I don’t have a problem with offering a quick fix.

In fact quick is exactly the type of fix I want to offer. Seems sensible to me.

I mean who wants a slow fix, really?

So why would people deliberately want to emphasize to you that they are NOT offering a quick fix?

My guess is that people are focusing on the wrong half of the phrase.

It’s not about the speed. It’s whether it truly is a fix, quick or otherwise.

‘Quick fix‘ is a term for a cover-up, a bandaid, an incomplete job that needs to be redone properly later on. Well none of that is a fix.

If you truly fix something, it’s done.

Sometimes the fix is quick, but the results take time to show.

On this self help site you will find lots of ‘quick fixes’. In fact I’ll only offer slow fixes when I don’t have quick ones. The emphasis will be on the fixing part, and doing what you need to make the changes at the level you need them. Speed is a bonus.

Often when you solve an issue at a more fundamental level it doesn’t take long at all, AND it will be a more thorough ‘fix’ than if you worked long and hard at a more superficial level.

Partly this is because there less re-work involved in getting to the final result.

Next time you hear someone talking about a ‘quick fix’, do they really understand what they are putting down? Check for yourself on the fix side and as long as you are getting what you are really after, I say ignore the nay-sayers and go for it.

-Dr Martin Russell

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