<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # “I’m going to work on that” is one of the most... > “I’m going to work on that” is one of the most expensive sentences in a relationship, because it buys immediate relief from confrontation while committing to nothing that can be measured. Repeated without a plan, it turns life into Groundhog Day: the same feedback arrives every morning, the same promise answers it, and the same behavior returns, because feedback without correction is only repetition. An excuse that arrives before the other person has finished speaking is not an analysis of the problem; it is a defensive reflex spending the energy that change would have required. **Source:** [[livestreams/Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change - Workbook|Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change]] ## Share on Social Media ``` ““I’m going to work on that” is one of the most expensive sentences in a relationship, because it buys immediate relief from confrontation while committing to nothing that can be measured. Repeated without a plan, it turns life into Groundhog Day: the same feedback arrives every morning, the same promise answers it, and the same behavior returns, because feedback without correction is only repetition. An excuse that arrives before the other person has finished speaking is not an analysis of the problem; it is a defensive reflex spending the energy that change would have required.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-im-going-work-energy-change-required ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->