Growth also looks like calling back the person you’ve been avoiding and saying, “Hey, can we talk?”

Some of the clearest progress looks like a phone call you have been putting off for months. Avoidance is comfortable and it accumulates, and every week you do not make the call, the call gets slightly heavier while the original problem stays exactly where it was. Reaching out first costs pride and very little else.

Pick the person you keep thinking about and send a short message. No long explanation, no case for why you were right. Just an opening. What happens next is not entirely up to you, and the opening still counts.