Jefferson Fisher

difficult conversations, the greater relationships I'm going to have in my life.

For me,

Communication has helped me be a better husband, a better father, a better friend in ways that only communication can do.

And you're right.

We go through our whole season of growing up, going to high school, going to college, and all of a sudden you get married and then you look at the person next to you and go, oh, I have to talk to you.

I have to talk at work.

I have to manage people.

How do I do that?

That's a skill of communication that is learned.

It is not just gifted.

If you don't, the bill always comes due.

The bill always comes due.

You're going to have that difficult conversation at the very end when you're at your wit's end.

Or you may never have it at all because there's going to be something in your life that happened that they're not going to be here anymore.

And what should have been said, that opportunity was lost.

We avoid the difficult because we avoid the angst that we feel.

But yet, when we choose to have the difficult conversation and we get on the other end of it and realize, oh, wait, I...

Life didn't fall apart.

Oh, wait, I'm still here.

Oh, wait, they chose to accept me.