Stop Saying Yes and Start YELLING No
With life continually ramped up to a hyper pace, you will always have a lot of things to do. Yes, your little list you just started with 10 action items is going to 35 by the end of the day and you will be lucky to check off 7 of the original. Between emails, phone calls, texts, your brain, friends, businesses, family, new prospects, clients and messenging, you will be inundated with requests for a whole host of potential action items throughout the day.
You will be continually tested by the universe to see if you can remain focused on your Why, which is the reason you are getting out of bed in the morning and pushing hard. These tests will often come in the form of distractions from friends, families and sometimes, people you don't even know that well. So many of us out there are people pleasers, a habit that I believe can get you into more trouble it is worth - we say yes to everything even when it means our little list is going to balloon.
Can you help me with this project? Yes! Can you pick-up my dog and watch him? Yes! Can you meet at this time for this reason? Yes. Yes. Yes. When you continually say yes to stuff that you hate - and to stuff that you may not hate, but distracts you from your why and the vision you are trying to create for you life - you lose something that is more valuable that money: your time and your dream.
Saying yes to shit you hate all the time is eroding your dream. This week, I challenge you to track ten times when you simply have to say no to stuff that isn't driving your life forward and causing you to swerve into another lane, or detour unnecessarily.
We all have the same amount of time during the day, so how is it that some people are creating their dream lives with other wishing they could follow suit? In a nutshell: those living and creating their dream lives are saying N-O a lot more frequently. It can be tough in the start, but trust me when I say it gets easier. Write down your "NOs" and feel proud of them. Be gentle, but firm with your no's and don't feel you have to justify to people. You may upset a few people in the process, but if you aren't, then you likely don't have a vision. I am not saying to blow everyone off and make enemies, but remember you time is oh so valuable and your vision WILL NOT create itself when you are distracted.
Discipline = Focus = Freedom
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