APX-IV-0025
“I've been avoiding a hard conversation that needs to happen.”
Every day you delay a conversation that needs to happen, the situation gets heavier and your avoidance gets more practiced. Hard conversations are not optional for someone who owns their nature — they are part of the job.
Your Practice
Write down in one sentence what the conversation actually needs to accomplish — not how you feel about it, just the objective. Then set a time to have it within forty-eight hours. Preparation reduces avoidance: write the opening two sentences you will say. Then say them.
The Architects
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion