Instead of saying “Yes” because you’re worried/ scared/ anxious about saying “No…”
Meditate for a brief moment on ALL of the other opportunities/people you’d be saying “No” to if you said “Yes…”
- Saying “Yes” to another obligation = Saying “No” to every other task you could be engaging in during that time instead.
- Saying “Yes” to that social outing you don’t want to go to = Saying “No” to all of the self-care activities you could be doing instead.
- Saying “Yes” to more time at work = Saying “No” to more time with family, friends, your lover, or yourself.
- And so on…
This was the advice I needed to hear that (finally) made saying “No” exponentially easier.
I hope it does the same for you.
P.s. Today, I also published Adam Sandler’s Speech from Hustle [2022] “Never Back Down”