Progress Path · Zone 6 · The Long Game
Repair That Holds
Step 1 · Learn · Take Responsibility and Repair
The follow-through is the apology
Turn an apology into a change she can actually see. · About 10 minutes.
An apology is the opening of a repair, not the whole thing. What holds is the small visible change over the following weeks.
Name the specific thing, name the effect, name the one change, then do the change where it can be seen.
Do not ask for credit. Being asked to notice the repair undoes most of it.
Step 2 · Practice
Two Weeks Later
Run the scenario, or take the real-life practice below. Either one counts.
Practice With a Scenario · Step 1 of 2
Two Weeks Later
You apologised properly two weeks ago. It has come up again.
What do you do?
See how this could play out.
Practice in Real Life
Practice in Real Life
- 1Pick one open repair and name the single change that would make it visible.
- 2Do that change three times this week without mentioning it.
- 3Ask once what else would help.
Was this practice useful?
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Step 3 · Complete
Read the lesson, then choose a practice.
Zone goal
Set a rhythm you can run for the next ninety days.
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