Avoid a Life of Regrets With Your Yes List
Avoid a Life of Regrets With Your Yes List by Sopan Greene
http://www.InspiredEnoughToChange.com
How many times have you told yourself "yes!" today? Not enough I
bet. Yes is the most powerful word in the English language.
Unfortunately, too many times we say yes to others when we
should say no. At the same time we continue to tell ourselves no
when we need to say yes.
You deserve to create the life of your dreams. Period. The first
step on that road is to learn to tell yourself yes before you
say yes to others.
One big reason so many people don't like their lives is because
they accidentally created a life that's not based on what they
want. How did that happen? Pretty easily and unconsciously.
If most of your life isn't how you thought it would turn out
then you haven't figured out what you want to say yes to in your
life. This doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you a typical
twenty-first century human whose life is filled with distracting
details and tasks. Random decisions lead us down random paths
with random endings we don't want.
When you know what you want to say yes to then your life begins
to change drastically. Why? Because anything that comes up
that's not on your "Yes list" is an automatic no. How helpful is
that? Very helpful.
This allows you to cut out time that gets wasted on activities
you don't need to do. For example lets pretend Grace's yes list
includes things like reading, having a clean house, taking care
of her kids, exercising, being healthy, enjoying her job, and
connecting with her friends.
So today, like every day, Grace is bombarded with choices. She
gets to work and someone generously brought in a huge box of
donuts to share with everyone. She thinks one would taste good
and she wouldn't mind a sugar rush to get her day started.
Should she eat it? Not if she's saying yes to being healthy.
That yes cuts out the possibility of junk food and helps to
prevent a future morning in the mirror asking "How did this
happen to me?"
Later in the day a friend calls and invites Grace out to dinner
at 9 p.m. Grace says no to dinner out because she ate out last
night and doesn't want the extra calories amoung other reasons
that don't fit her "yes list". But then she says yes if her
friend will come over to her house at 7 instead of 9 so she can
have a healthier meal, be with her kids, get to bed early enough
to not be tired at work and to live within her "yes list."
Do you get it? The point is that if your yes list has "start my
own business" at the top then you say no to anything that
doesn't support it like too much television viewing, playing
video games every day, joing a softball league, etc.
Once you make your "yes list" and then prioritize the list
you'll be in the driver's seat as you drive through each day
making choice after choice after choice. You'll be conscious
about waht you want and you'll be doing what you need to do to
get what you want. Your future mornings with the mirror will see
you smiling and thrilled with your life.
This way you won't end up at the end of your life wondering
"what if?" Even better, you won't be complaining about what you
should've, could've or would've done. Instead you'll be basking
in your accomplishments and living the life you love.
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