My New Role at the Family Table Worksheet
A one-page exercise you can print or fill in on screen. Stop people pleasing, one small, kind no at a time.
How to use it
Choose one person or one family job, and design your new seat.
What's on the page
- The person or job
- My old seat (what I’ve always done)
- How long I’ve been in it
- What I want to keep doing, because I like it
- What I want to stop or share
- My new seat, in one sentence
- My warm opener
- My clear change
- My honest alternative (only if I mean it)
- What I'll say when it’s tested (the same words, no new reasons)
Plus a checklist, including:
- I stayed in the new seat the next time the request came.
This page comes from Disappoint Someone Today.
The book walks through when to use it, with examples. It's from Chapter 9.
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More free pages from Disappoint Someone Today
- My First Three Rungs
- Where Do My Yeses Come From?
- Starter Noes Checklist
- My Yes: Payoff and Price
- My Yes Map
- The Three-Question Filter
- Write Your Own Kind, Short No
- The Kind, Short No Pocket Card
- Build Your No Ladder
- My Practice Log
- My Workload Reality Check
- Repair a No That Came Out Badly
- What I’ll Do When They Push
- Run the Guilt Check
- Calendar Audit and Weekly Plan
- 30-Day Practice Plan
- The Two-Minute Inside Check
© Blake Tenney. Free to share with credit, not for sale (CC BY-NC 4.0). General self-help information, not medical or professional advice.