The scary conversation gets scarier the longer you wait. Have it while it’s still small.
RESILIENCE
WHAT THIS MEANS
Delay changes the subject. Early on you only have to discuss the thing itself; a month later you also have to account for the month, and the silence has become part of what needs explaining. Meanwhile the other person has been building their own version of events without any input from you. The conversation does not sit still while you get ready for it.
Name the one you are postponing, then put it in the next three days rather than at some better moment. Open with the plainest sentence you have.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which conversation has grown heavier every week you delayed it?
MORE IN COURAGE & RISK
- Courage can look like going to the doctor, the counselor, or the coach and saying, “Something’s off.”
- Every time you do a scary thing and survive, your fear’s prediction record gets worse. Keep breaking its streak.
- Taking a stand might cost you a friend. If it does, that friendship was rented, not owned.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.