3840: Slipping Out of Maybe AND The Yes and No Paradigm by Allison Carmen on Moving Beyond Uncertainty

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3840: Allison Carmen invites us to shift from rigid expectations to the liberating mindset of Maybe, where uncertainty becomes a source of hope instead of fear. Through personal struggles and everyday dilemmas, she shows how letting go of the need for immediate answers, whether “yes” or “no,” can create space for creativity, resilience, and unexpected solutions. Embracing Maybe opens the door to a life filled with possibility, even when plans fall apart. Read along with the original article(s) here: http://www.allisoncarmen.com/slipping-out-of-maybe/ & http://www.allisoncarmen.com/the-yes-and-no-paradigm-2/ Quotes to ponder: "Maybe allows us to contemplate the possibilities of life unfolding in many different ways without feeling the need for action the very minute a problem confronts us." "Let Maybe allow you the room to breathe and stretch and open up to all that is possible." "Sometimes, however, the impulse to immediately decide 'yes' or 'no' to the everyday problems and situations that we face is more about playing it safe and clinging to certainty than it is about living life to the fullest." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	This is Optimal Living Daily. premium features require paid subscription see terms on site this is optimal living daily slipping out of maybe and the yes and no paradigm both by alison carman of alison carman dot com and i'm justa mollick the guy that
0:50.3	reads to you every single day of the year, including weekends and holidays,
0:56.5	to help you live a more meaningful and positive life.
1:01.5	Now two posts today, both from Allison Carman, a friend of ours, the producers of this show.
1:04.9	So with that, let's get right to it and start optimizing your life.
1:14.0	Slipping Out of Maybe by Allison Carmen of Allison Carmen.com.
1:20.0	Although I rarely practice law anymore, these past months I've been trying to help my cousin purchase his family's dream home in New York. My cousin and his wife have one child and another
1:25.4	on the way. Because of my emotional attachment, it has been
1:28.7	difficult dealing with the many bumps and challenges of this transaction. Yet I believe that I could
1:34.2	get this deal done for them. It became so important to me in part because my cousin had been
1:39.1	very sick at one time and the opportunity to buy this home seemed like a new beginning for him.
1:45.2	In my mind, I actually started to buy this home seemed like a new beginning for him. In my mind,
1:49.7	I actually started to believe that my cousin needed this particular deal to happen for his happiness and well-being. My cousin does not have a lot of money and this house would be stretching
1:54.7	it, but affordable. It was located near his job and in a good school district. Yesterday, we got
2:00.6	word that the bank wouldn't lend
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