Lewis Howes

But that's what we need to be doing.

And I want you to pick one request today that you would normally say yes to out of guilt and instead say, I appreciate you thinking of me, but I can't take that on right now.

Ooh.

Watch what happens.

Watch what happens.

Someone that's going to reach out to you today to ask you for money.

Say, I appreciate you thinking of me, but I can't take that on right now.

Ooh, someone's not going to like this.

They are not going to like you saying no to them if you've said yes over and over again.

If someone says, hey, can you pick up my shift?

And you always pick up their shift, but you never take care of your health and you miss out on your gym exercises because you're always saying yes to someone else.

Say, no, I can't pick this up for you right now, but thank you for thinking of me.

if they ask you to babysit, whatever it is, something you normally do out of guilt.

Now, if you want to do something, if you generally want to in this moment, then sure, do it.

But if you feel like you feel bad, or you feel like you're getting taken advantage of, or you feel like you're doing it out of guilt, that's not respect.

That's not power.

That's fear that you're living into because you don't want someone else to not like you.

But I'm telling you, the more you disrespect yourself by saying yes to others, by doing things you don't truly want to do authentically, you're living a lie.

You're living out of integrity and out of alignment with yourself and with your highest version of you.

And you're doing something you really don't want to do.