There is a famous theory called the ‘Theory of the broken window’. It is based on  an inexplicable part of human psychology and social behaviour. It says that a broken window that is left unfixed can quickly encourage more crime and vandalism because it sends a message of apathy to everyone that sees it. 

This is common experience that in a room that's a complete mess, yet another thing dropped on the floor doesn't make much of a difference. If the room is immaculate, we try to avoid being the first one to make it dirty.

The message is: Keep things as clean as possible. Bad things attract other bad things.  

Malcolm Galdwell has written an interesting book on this theory called ‘The Tipping Point’ in which he has stated that New York City credits the sudden and dramatic drop in crime in the late 1980s and 1990s to an effort to rid public spaces of graffiti and other symbols of lawlessness.

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces.

The broken window is a metaphor for behavioural norms and is applicable to every field of life. A neglected job, unrepaired machines, late comers in the office or a fostering enmity between two colleagues are broken windows.

Every organisation has to be on the look out and fix these problems on time or else the energy starts leaking. Indecisive executives or heads of the families are the worst broken windows that secretly corode the benefits of an organism.

We can look at this phenomenon from a different angle, as Osho points out: " This is one of the fundamental laws of life: if you have you will get more, if you don't have you will lose even that which you have. It is a very strange law but one has to understand it. Nothing can be done about it, one has to follow it”.

"It is so in the ordinary world, and it is so in the inner world. The rich man gets richer because money attracts more money; the poor man gets poorer. The same is true in the inner world too: the blissful person becomes more blissful; all god's blessings shower on him. The miserable person becomes more miserable. You get only that which you have because that which you have becomes a magnetic force. It attracts something similar to it."Becoming more conscious and responding to every moment  with alertness can resolve this problem and help overcome any obstacles in future.