100. No, Thank You: How to Say Yes to What’s Important
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It’s not uncommon to say yes to things without really considering whether it is aligned with your priorities. Saying no can leave us feeling guilty, like we’ve let others down. But if we don’t learn how to say no to others, we won’t have the time, energy, or space to say yes to ourselves. In this mini episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael discuss how to get clear on your boundaries, so you can spend more time on the people and things that really matter.
“We only have so much time on this earth; it’s impossible to do all the things that interest you. Pick the ones that interest you the most in order to spend time with the people you love the most, including yourself. That’s the hard part: that balance.” – Monica Berg
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| 0:00.0 | I think that one of the reasons why we allow ourselves to say yes and do things that aren't either necessary or really that important is because we don't value the moments enough. We don't value our hours, |
| 0:24.7 | our days enough. Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast summer edition episode 100. |
| 0:34.2 | Wow. It's amazing. It's a lot of words. Yes. It's a lot of thoughts. There's a lot of time together. Not that much time. We should have been more. Yeah, thoughts. And that's why I mean... It's cool. It's like 100 hours, basically. Yeah. So this is a word I really started to enjoy saying. And I can't say that. |
| 0:54.9 | That's not really true. |
| 0:55.5 | I love you. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm practicing on saying it more. |
| 1:01.7 | No, nope, no, thank you. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, you like it? |
| 1:06.2 | I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm learning, I'm learning to say no. |
| 1:09.4 | So, and I'll explain. |
| 1:13.6 | We see memes all the time on social media encouraging us to say yes to everything. |
| 1:16.8 | But I am saying we should say no way more. |
| 1:22.1 | We're so conditioned to say yes to everything so quickly that we end up filling our time and then need to say no to the things we really want to do and to people who really matter to us. |
| 1:25.6 | You know I struggle with this. |
| 1:26.9 | This struggle is real. And it comes up a lot. And so that's why I'm saying I'm practicing and I'm |
| 1:32.0 | getting a little bit better at it. So the trick is to say no from the start and you can ultimately |
| 1:36.0 | do the things that light you up. So these are questions that I get a lot around this topic. |
| 1:42.1 | The first question is, what is it about the word no that makes |
| 1:45.1 | it so hard for us to say it to people? It comes down to our feelings around the word, no. We've all |
| 1:50.9 | been conditioned to believe that, and mostly through society that we should be amenable, place high |
| 1:56.4 | value on what people think of us, and go to great lengths to not disappoint anybody. And by the way, |
| 2:01.4 | if this is your belief system, then yes is going to be the answer that you say most days. |
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