Ed Mylett

Okay.

Well, who's not busy?

You know what I mean?

We kind of live in a culture that creates a vortex of busyness that if you're not intentional, it will consume you.

So it's something I'm not perfect at for sure.

It's kind of like we're growing and ebbing and flowing and maturing in this our whole lives.

But, man, I've had to learn how to just say good, solid no's.

And, I mean, honestly, there are more no's than yes's.

But the no's, every no creates an opportunity for a yes.

I realized a long time ago that if I say yes to something out of guilt, because maybe they've asked four times before and I haven't been able to do it, or yes out of fear of missing out, it's an opportunity.

Every time I said yes for those reasons, I regretted it because I'd get to that day and my kid has a soccer game.

I'd get to that day and goodness gracious, I could have taken a vacation that week with my husband, but now there's something planted in the middle of the week that I didn't say yes to for pure reasons.

So that happens enough to you and you have that feeling of remorse that you didn't say an honest, genuine yes, then it starts to not be worth it anymore.

So I appear far more busy than I am.

I appear far more busy than I am because from the outside looking in, it looks like I'm everywhere doing everything, and I'm really not.

I'm home most of the month.

If I'm gone twice a month because I've said yes to those two things, then that's going to be two 24- to 48-hour periods that I'm away.

Other than that, I'm at home.

Me too.

I will say that it occurs to me.