Shawn Johnson East

And so all these people who are just like.

And traumatizing themselves around the lunch table saying, I don't know if I should leave today.

Should I stay?

And I was like, it's not an option for me.

I am here for 10 days and that's it.

And we say this in the book.

We get so tired of all the options we have in life.

that it drains you.

And if you start choosing definitively to remove things, it almost makes it feel like you have more options.

And that sounds weird to say, but if you're operating within your boundaries and you know that within your boundaries, you can do anything, it's freeing because you don't have the distractions of like the entire world saying there's something better over here.

You just don't allow yourself to look at it.

It was the hardest chapter to write in the book.

How do you write a book on commitment and then a chapter to say uncommit to some things?

But we write about pruning.

It's something Andrew and I do in our life.

In order to fully dive into a commitment, whatever you say yes to, you're saying no to something else or vice versa.

But learning how to remove things in your life that are a distraction is actually a really good thing.

I think a lot of us hang on to things too long because we're afraid to say goodbye to it.

But it's actually a very freeing thing to say.

None of that is serving my values and my purpose and my commitments.