Your reputation isn’t set in concrete. It’s wet sand, and you’re still walking.

What people think of you is a running average, not a permanent record. It was built from a small number of moments, many of them old, and it updates every time you give it new material. People have less stored about you than the feeling suggests, and they revise quietly. The story is still being written by what you do next.

Pick one person whose read on you feels stuck and give them something current to work with. Show up on time, do the thing you said, be ordinary about it. Repetition moves an impression far better than a single explanation does.