You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.

Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.

Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so formal about it, but if you're not used to doing it, then there's no shame in retraining yourself.

You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.