And so the laziness in me wants to be like, oh, today doesn't matter. I don't have to do that today. It's not going to count later. And then six months later, I'm like, why is this still happening? Like, why? And oh, because I haven't been doing that daily tiny thing. I've been lazy about that.

Really, if I could design a life, what would it be? Because I could say yes to everything I love, I love all sorts of lifestyle. I could be, I'm going to live on the houseboat in the middle of nowhere and I could be, I'm going to live in a commune with a million people. For me, it's kind of traumatic to say no all the time that I just had, I've had to learn how to do it. Otherwise, I'm overextended and I wish I hadn't said yes.

The older I get, the more that I see, the gray and the questions and the nuances and the

subtleties and the, oh, but I'm not sure about that anymore.

It's The Simple Show.

You've got episode 88.

I'm Tishawkson Writer, and on the Simple Show, we talk about saying no and yes to the right things.

Welcome to a new season on the podcast.

So listen to this quote from the first chapter of essentialism by Greg McCown.

He says, let me ask you this. Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilized?

Have you ever found yourself majoring in minor activities? Do you ever feel busy but not productive? Like you're always in motion, but never getting anywhere.

If you're like me, you have said yes to all these. And if you're like my four co-hosts here on

the simple show, you've also said yes. I mean, I think this is a pretty universal

issue in our modern culture. And so for the next little bit on The Simple Show, we're going to

talk about it. We're going to explore what this means, but really, like, what this looks like

in our real day-to-day lives. What does it look like for us to say no to the things that, I mean, if we're

honest, we just don't care about that much so that we have room in our lives to say yes to the things

that matter? Is that really, truly possible with all our responsibilities and expectations?

This is what we want to figure out. Because it's all well and good to talk about this philosophical

idea of essentialism. But what does it look like on the ground as we deal with like work, parenting,

staying healthy, being plugged into our communities and families and making time for the things

that we love, you know, travel, reading good books, watching good stuff, and eating well.

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