Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
LEADERSHIP
— Thomas Jefferson
LEADERSHIP
Everything else depends on an accurate starting position. Judgement built on a flattering account of your own situation will be sophisticated and wrong, because the reasoning was applied to figures that had already been adjusted. Being straight with yourself is not a virtue added on top of thinking well, it is the precondition for it.
Find the number or the fact you have been rounding in your favour: the money, the drinking, the state of a relationship, how the work is really going. Write the unflattering version down. Everything sensible you might do next starts from there.
What would you have to admit before anything else improves?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.