What happens when you don't fix a leaky pipe (literally and figuratively)

I recently found a slow drip in my water heater. It's easy to ignore a slow drip in any area of our life, but this slow drip is already rusting the metal top of the hot water heater! What in your business or life is a constant, slow drip that is eating away at your profits, impact, influence, intimacy, etc. Yes, there's a cost to fixing it, but not fixing it can become more more costly.