Jefferson Fisher

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.

Wait, they didn't run away.

It's a feeling that can't be replaced when you realize you can be more vulnerable with this person.

You can go deeper with this person.

Think of the people in your life that you're the closest with.

They're the people who've seen your ugly, you know, the hard stuff, the messy stuff.

And when you can have that kind of capacity for each other and communication and conversation, you're only going to grow.