I used to suck at having the difficult conversations. Not just professionally, but personally too. 

My attempts would go one of two ways, either I'd explode and get really angry or I'd go quiet and just agree with whatever the other person said while judging them harshly in my head. Because of this I just stopped having the difficult conversations altogether. Essentially I thought they were a waste of my time and just got focused on the future instead. 

What I didn't understand back then was that through choosing to avoid dealing with the conflict, I was also choosing to hold onto all the toxic emotions that came from the conflict. As a result my life just slowed down, I put on weight, money was harder to generate, genuine connection was difficult and stressing out was all too easy. Just like a full laptop hard drive, I had limited space for the new to come in. 

In this episode today I speak about my experience with this challenge, how I eventually became better at addressing conflict in my life and the key learnings I took away from making it a priority.