The Stay-or-Go Framework

Before you decide, run four questions:

• Is it fixable? If the problem can be solved and you have not really tried, stay and fix it first
• Have you spoken up? Many situations shift fast once you actually name what is wrong
• A trend or a moment? A rough week is not a rough year. Tell passing stress from a deep structural flaw
• What are you moving toward? Escaping something bad is not a plan. A better destination is

This keeps you from both mistakes: bailing too early on fixable problems, and clinging too long out of pure inertia.