difficult prompts
13 prompts tagged difficult, drawn from 2 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
- Deliver bad news in writingA slipped deadline, a cancelled project, a decision that will land badly.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Apologise properly, onceYou got something wrong and the apology needs to land before the excuse does.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Reply to an angry messageSomething landed in your inbox that made your heart rate go up.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Set a boundary in writingMessages at midnight, creeping scope, or a pattern you need to name once.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Give difficult feedback in writingThe conversation has to happen in text and you get one shot at the wording.Longâïļ Email & messages
- Bad news in the first lineA slipped deadline or a cancelled plan that somebody will be unhappy about.Mediumâïļ Email & messages
- A gift for someone who insists they want nothingThe parent, partner or friend who says "don't get me anything" and means it.Longð Gifts & occasions
- A condolence message that doesn't reach for platitudesSomeone has died and you've been staring at the message box for twenty minutes.Longð Gifts & occasions
- Give without creating an obligationWhen a gift might land as pressure, debt, or a request for something back.Longð Gifts & occasions
- Anything but another candleWhen your gift instincts have become a rut.Shortð Gifts & occasions
- For someone who has everythingThe person who genuinely does not want more things.Shortð Gifts & occasions
- Is this gift too much?When the amount might land as pressure rather than generosity.Shortð Gifts & occasions
- What do I write in a condolence card?Staring at a blank card after someone has died.Shortð Gifts & occasions
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