THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR YES

The year is 2023 and 2024 is quickly upon us, cue in the mood all 2024 memes

the importance of saying “no thank you” is a mood I will be adopting all 2024

lets do some quick math

24 hours in a day

8 hours of sleep

8 hours of work

1 hour drive time

wait what? 7 hours left in my day, this dont seem like a lot based on the new goals we have said we will reach in the year

The answer is exactly what it looks like, its not. How can you manage to nurture relationships, workout, and do all the things you love?

Once you really audit your day you realize there isnt much time for things outside of what you have set your goals and times toward.

So lets explain what i mean by the consequences of your yes.

You have established a schedule of when you will be doing each task that is moving towards the goals you have set for 2024 and then all of a sudden Sally comes in and says hey Susan lets go out for drinks Friday its been a while since we caught up, skrrrrrr (this the sound of car breaking). Its also the sound of the momentum you have established because fridays you have decided to hit the gym to really cap off a great week of workouts, but Sally is right you guys havent caught up in a while. So you go, one drink leads to another, conversation is going well, yall get hungry, more drinks are consumed and all of a sudden its 1 am. Not only is your Friday messed up, but so is your saturday, because now your morning routine gets scratched and everything you typically have planned for Saturdays is pushed aside as well.

Heres Some Solutions and they both start like this

No thank you…

1. Fridays I workout, join me and lets catch up while we work out

2. Fridays arent good for me, I typically have breakfast around this time saturdays, care to join?

These are just a couple examples, but the umbrella statement should be, if the yes means you are taking time away from the things you have scheduled daily to reach your goals, then you need to come up with a solution that works, and if none are available, respectfully it just needs to be a “no thank you”. The consequences of our yes is time spent doing something outside of what you decided you needed to be doing daily to get you where you said you wanted to be. No hard feelings Sally