Hello, my dear friends and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

I didn't think I would have three podcasts worth of things to say about productivity,

but here we are three podcast deep and I mean a lot of these podcasts haven't been solely about productivity

but they all have an underlying theme of productivity so welcome to productivity part three

we've spoken about focused work like deep work and getting more done in less time, prioritising work that's

important to you, the 80-20 principle to make sure that you're putting your effort where it's

actually going to get the most reward. We've talked about systems and outsourcing, but there's one really obvious thing

that we haven't spoken about yet. And when I say we, I mean, me. And that is just simply saying

no. We often think that saying no means missing out on an opportunity.

But saying no actually means saying yes to all other options.

So when you say yes to something, you're saying that yes, you will do that thing,

which shuts you off to anything else you were going to do during that time.

So saying yes to something means saying no to everything else.

Whereas saying no to something means keeping your options open for everything else.

Kind of like if you say yes to being in a relationship with someone, a, what's the word? Oh God, it's really bad that I don't know this word. It probably says a lot about me. Monogamous relationship. Anyway, a

relationship where you're only going to be with one person, you're saying yes to that. That means saying no to anybody else. And I realize

that is quite a simple concept for most people. But this concept holds true in other areas of

life, not just in relationships. Remember that challenge that went round that was something like,

I don't know if it was a real challenge or just a meme that went around that was like, say yes to

everything for a week and see how your life changes. And I'm going to flip that round and be,

take the opposite stance and say, say no to almost everything

and see how much more productive you are when you say no to the things that you don't want to do

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