It Feels so Good to Say NO | Habari Gani?

Repeat after me. Thanks, but no!

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Monday, March 15, 2021

It feels so good to say no.

There was once a time, when I thought it was prudent to have a yes on my lips at all times.

Have you seen the movie Yes Man? It features Jim Carrey, one of my favorite actors, playing a character who has been down on his luck and receives some advice to start saying yes so that he can change his life. Say yes to everything! Say yes to life!

On some level, I have held a belief in the power of saying yes! As many opportunities seemed to come my way, I would contemplate them, but say yes to most things unless I really had a reason to say no.

As I'm growing older, and a little bit wiser, that default yes is turning more into a default no, and not because I've lost my yes to life. Quite the contrary! I am coming to realize that saying yes to life, saying yes to yourself, in fact, requires that you say no to most things.