Is Everything Practice? with Shaun Tinney
Shaun Tinney's whole idea is that everything you do on repeat is practice, even the avoiding.
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There's a quiet feeling that shows up when something's off, a little twist that says "this isn't working for me" before your head has words for it. Where has that feeling been showing up lately that you keep talking yourself out of?
What you swallow instead
When something stings, what do you do with it: shrug it off, rehearse the perfect comeback in your head, vent to everyone except the person who needs to hear it?
The price of staying quiet
Tinney says every time you swallow the true thing, a little anger and a little shame stack up inside. Add up what all that swallowing has actually cost you so far: your own peace, the respect you have for yourself, a relationship slowly going stale. Which one has it hit hardest?
Leave the tension out there
Your habit is to be the one who smooths it over so nobody's uncomfortable. What's one true sentence you could say and then just leave sitting there, so the other person has to do something with it instead of you?
Say it to the right person
Getting started is the hardest part, like a rocket burning most of its fuel just to leave the ground. Who's the one person you'll actually say your true sentence to, and when this week will you be in front of them?