every time you say yes to anything, you're also saying no to other things you could have done.

Perhaps it's allocating your time, energy, and resources to a more important project with a

bigger outcome. Or maybe it's simply protecting the precious time you have with your children

and family without any other obligations looming and pulling you in another direction.

Whatever the stakes, make sure that the next time you consider saying yes, when you really should

probably be saying no, ask the life-saving question. If this was tomorrow, would I say yes?

Welcome to Darren Daly on demand, your most trusted resources. If this was tomorrow, would I say yes?

Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Have you ever looked at your calendar when, oh, why did I agree to that?

Yeah, me too.

A while back, I worked with a vendor on one of our programs, and the work had been intense,

and he did a great job.

He had been particularly inspired by the material in a way that he never expected, since he's an engineer and he's not usually concerned with the content, just the technical execution.

At the end of the project, he said, I am the committee chair to pick the commencement speaker

for my son's university. It's a progressive liberal arts university, and I think that they would

love your message. It's just what they need to hear. Graduation is in late May next year,

which was a whole nine months from when we were having this conversation, you'd be fantastic,

he said, as the selected commencement speaker, would you do it? Feeling very flattered and grateful for

all his great work, I said, sounds great. Fast forward eight and a half months later, I'm in the thick

of my other urgent and important obligations, and I look at my upcoming calendar, and I see the

commencement speech. Ah, a pit in my stomach forms, and I think, why did I agree to that? The same thing

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