VIR-I-0020
“I need to have a hard conversation I've been avoiding for weeks.”
The conversation doesn't get easier the longer you wait — it just gets heavier. Every day of avoidance is a day of carrying it. The anticipation of a hard conversation is almost always worse than the conversation itself. And on the other side of it, something can finally move.
Your Practice
Write out what you need to say in two or three sentences — the core of it, plainly. Read it back. Then schedule the conversation: pick a specific time, today or tomorrow, and send the message or make the call. Don't plan more. Just go.
The Architects
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.”
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack