As creators, as entrepreneurs, we often face a special challenge when it comes to saying, no,

I do not know if this is a personality trait, if this is embedded in a lifetime of thinking

of ourselves as one of these identities as a creator or as an entrepreneur.

I don't know, but I do know that knowing what to prioritize and knowing that we have to be aware of the fear of missing out FOMO and not letting it take over are two really, really important characteristics. So today's micro show, welcome,

by the way, is a handful of specific tips on how to practice saying no to more things. If I were

to tell you a story about my inability to say no, it would sound something like this.

Let me play you the version in my head, which is like the more things I say yes to,

the more opportunities I'm going to have, and the more experience I'm going to get with more people,

more people who can help me on my life journey to be more people

to inspire me, more, more, more, more experience, more exposure to ideas, more exposure for

me and my work to a whole new set of people, to a whole new set of industries.

So yes, more, more and more.

That is, that was actually, those were real thoughts that I had for a really long time until I started to realize that by saying yes, and I have

been an advocate of saying yes, I still am to some degree, but I'm qualifying that with today's

show, until I realized that when you're saying yes to all these things, what you're really doing

is saying no to so many things, oftentimes your most important and precious dreams.

So we have to start paying close attention.

What are we saying yes to? What ought we begin to think

about saying no to such that we can spend more time and energy towards the things that matter most?

So let's talk about specifically the top line benefits of saying no, right? First of all,

it provides you time and space.

Now if you're saying to me, well, I got too much time right now.

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