Funny conversation with a client the other day. He wrote a principle – I will not sit in misery. The first thing that popped into my mind was my 1 year old son and his poopy diapers. Bear with me.
They (the poopy diapers) happen multiple times a day, and one thing he never does is sit in it. He lets us know that he wants out of it. I imagine that’d be pretty miserable to sit in. We know this as babies, and yet somehow we forget it as adults. We sit in our misery and let it become a deeper chronic issue. Rather than changing the diaper immediately (i.e. having the hard conversation) we instead buy fancy diaper cream to make the rash feel better or spray on some fragrance to cover it up. Pass on the hard convo, get someone else to have it, drum up a 360, pretend like everything is fine – do anything and everything except the hard thing that actually eradicates the misery.
Don’t be a dumbass. Change your poopy diaper. Go have the hard conversation instead of sitting in misery.
BUILT TO LEAD 