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
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," Essays: First Series, 1841