I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is A Graspert, a short episode where

I share a bite-sized way you can increase your progress today.

If you're like me, this fall has already stretched you very thin, and now we are approaching

a holiday season, and that means some great things, parties, invites, requests to serve,

and it also means being stretched even thinner.

With so many good things coming up, I of course want you to say yes to as many of them

as you want to say yes to, feel like you can, or feel even called to do.

But what about the rest of those things?

What if you have some maybe's or even some clear nose?

This is where I want you to remember what I'm saying to you today.

This mantra of sorts is just say no.

What if instead of saying yes when you don't mean it, backing out last minute or showing

that resentful?

What if instead of ghosting people after initial yes, or not answering a request at all?

What if you just said no?

It makes me think of the one year I was a cheerleader in junior high.

Not the best year.

That's a long story, but I was not one of the cool cheerleaders, so I was not accepted

as a cheerleader.

But one time we're asked by a local grade school to come and during what they call red ribbon

week here in Utah, do a little assembly about saying no to drugs, and we made up this

cheer.

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