Today’s easy choice is often tomorrow’s awkward conversation.

Avoiding a small discomfort rarely deletes it. It converts it into a bigger one, later, with more people in the room. The unsent message, the mistake nobody has mentioned, the thing you let slide all keep sitting there collecting weight until somebody else raises them first. Easy and cheap are not the same thing.

Look at your week and find the one thing you are quietly hoping nobody brings up. Say it yourself, in a sentence or two, to whoever it concerns. Early and awkward beats late and formal nearly every time.