Repair a No That Came Out Badly 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
Tick each step, then write your repair sentence.
What's on the page
- What I said that came out badly
- What I actually meant
- My repair, in one or two sentences
- How they responded
Plus a checklist, including:
- I waited until I’d cooled down (at least an hour, or until the next morning).
- I said sorry for the tone once, without a long explanation.
- I kept my answer the same.
- I added one warm line about the person or the relationship.
- I stopped talking and let them respond.
- The next day, I sent a light check-in about something else.
This page comes from Disappoint Someone Today.
The book walks through when to use it, with examples. It's from Chapter 10.
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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
- My New Role at the Family Table
- 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.