Day 1
about 10 min
Count every disagreement you have today
Open a note on your phone and tally every disagreement you have today — spoken or silent. The eye-roll at a headline counts, the meeting comment you swallowed counts, the argument in the group chat counts. At the end of the day, write down the total and where most of them happened. Nobody needs to know you're doing it.
Day 8
about 5 min
Politely correct one small thing today
Today, when something small isn't right with a stranger involved — wrong change, a wrong order, a cold dish — say so in one calm sentence: "Sorry, I ordered the small one." No pile of apologies, no glare, just the sentence. If you usually come on strong, your version is the opposite: say it once, friendly, then let them fix it without supervising.
Day 15
about 10 min
Raise a small thing while it's small
Pick one small recurring thing that quietly bugs you about someone you live or work with — the dishes, the thermostat, the meeting that always overruns, the doc nobody updates. Tell them today, in two sentences: what keeps happening, and what you'd like instead. Say it in a calm moment, while it's still a small thing — not mid-annoyance.