Hey everybody it's Dr. L. here with Spartan Mind, your chief mind doc at Spartan

today we're talking about how to have hard conversations.

Now listen if you're thinking that you can go throughout life without having a single hard

conversation then actually you're going to be avoiding something that's beneficial to your life.

Now listen I don't want you to manufacture hard conversations.

Okay, that's not what we're interested in here.

But if you have relationships with people who are meaningful to you, then sometimes hard

conversations are going to arise. Let's say there's something that they're doing that you're not

in alignment with and have a difficult time with you might want to talk

to them about it.

Let's say that there's something that you're doing that they confront you on and you have to address

it with them, right?

Let's say it's a colleague at work, a boss, somebody who's working for you that you have to address certain behaviors that you're not proud of.

Hard conversations exist. Oh, in your family, that's where a lot of hard conversations exist. So let's talk about how you have them.

One thing I want you to consider going into a hard conversation is what do you want out of the conversation, right? So if the end of the conversation,

you can walk away feeling like you got something accomplished

or that what you wanted to bring to the table

actually got brought, what would that be?

What is your intention, right, with the hard conversation?

Remember that hard conversations

strengthen relationships.

A lot of people believe that difficult conversations in relationships

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