Think about a dilemma as an opportunity to decide between the plague and cholera.

It’s a moment in time when you know that a decision you’ll be making will be staring back at you in a few months. Someone will not be happy with it. And you know that it’s rightly so.

But you’ll remember then that none of the available alternatives were perfect.

Thinking again about these alternatives and what you’ve decided to achieve, you’ll know why you made the choice you made.

Having been clear about that why, you’ll be able to put it into words.

It might not make them your friends, they might still have every reason to disagree, but maybe they’ll understand that it isn’t about them.