Lewis Howes

Just say it.

You know, it's okay, no is a complete sentence.

And I love that quote from Anne Lamott who said, no is a complete sentence.

And listening, if someone asks you for a request, you don't just have to say no and be done with it.

You could say, no, I can't take that on right now.

And it doesn't have to be that much more.

But for me, man, it was like when someone would send me a text asking me to do something or an email,

It was like I would have to think about it for hours of how I'm going to reply and how I'm going to reply in a way so I can make some type of an excuse or some type of an explanation

where when they receive it, they won't get let down.

They won't get disappointed in me.

They won't be upset at me.

They won't be angry at me, but they'll still like me.

It was just like, I was just the weakest person in how I would reply to people for years.

And that's why I just always said yes.

because I wanted everyone to like me.

I wanted everyone to think that Lewis is a good guy and Lewis, I can count on Lewis and he'll say yes to anything that I want for him, right?

Whatever it was.

But man, was that exhausting.

It just drained the life out of me.

And the fear of saying no to people exhausted me even more because I was so afraid of what they would think about me.