For years I described what my work costs to people who had nothing in their heads for the description to land on. They nodded and kept nothing. Nothing moved until I stopped describing and put the work in someone's hands,
Headroom is not a mood. It is a state variable with a value at every hour, readable off a month without looking inward at all, because when it runs low the tracked deliveries still go out on time and the
Giving something back is a decision, and a decision has a size and an end. Set the size, leave the end out, and the return converts into a position neither of you chose to take.
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.
