The Standards You Lowered Without Noticing [AI Prompt]
The most dangerous compromises are the ones that happen slowly. This prompt helps you see the standards you lowered without noticing
Nobody lowers their standards all at once.
That’s not the way it works.
There’s no moment where you sit down and decide that this behavior is acceptable now, that this dynamic is just how things are, that this is the version of your team - or your life - you’re going to settle for.
It happens in invisible increments.
Something bothers you, you let it go.
It happens again, you let it go again.
After a while you stop noticing.
After a longer while you can’t remember what bothered you in the first place.
That’s the danger of compromise. It’s a slippery slope and you don’t notice you’re sliding until you’ve fallen off the precipice.
The crazy thing about the process, is that it feels like growth.
It feels like you’re getting a new perspective and maybe even maturing past the things that used to bother you.
Sometimes that’s true.
But it’s also not.
Sometimes, you’ve just lowered your standards in a way you’ll wish you didn’t.
I had a client who spent twenty minutes telling me everything was fine.
Great team, good culture, no major issues.
Then I asked: “What have you stopped bringing up in meetings because it’s not worth the conversation anymore?”
Long pause.
Then he rambled off a list that was ripe with meaning.
This prompt finds your list.
It shows you exactly what non-starters you had that you’ve quietly allowed to fade away.
Not everything you’re tolerating is a problem.
But some of it is.
And it’s about time you realized how you’re compromising your standards.
Run the prompt now. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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