How do you walk the terrain of what we might describe as broken trust?
How do we mend a relationship and return to the good of what that relationship produces?
How do we navigate and frame conversations with a colleague in whom our trust is diminishing?
How do we approach the next interaction with the affected co-worker or client?
In the face of disillusionment or disappointment through missed expectations, if not already, why not consider the questions Stuart Wesley puts forward when it comes to the power of making requests.
It could even result in a game of golf!
Before explaining the implications of being betrothed to debt, I should probably point out that this article isn't actually about financial literacy or out-of-control spending as such.
It's about what happens when we are confronted by those moments in life, be they at work or at home, that seem utterly insurmountable.
Last week, Travis wrote an article entitled Meconium Fights & Muck-Mouth Homilies.
As I finished reading the article, a sceptical voice inside my head whispered three short words..."Great in theory". I was left with a defeated feeling about my own capacity to access these questions when in the heat of the emotional moment.
The gift in this event, though, was in how it triggered an unexpected learning journey for us around the art of the difficult conversation. I'm talking about the kind of conversation that guides us through the terrain of missed expectations and disappointment without doing further damage; a conversation that preserves relationship instead of ruining it.
