No!

# Chapter 223

Learn to say no – focus on the essentials. - Masterminds

This is a must for all of us all the time. Learning to say no to yourself. Learning to say no to other’s requests or demands. Learning to say no to adding more events and actions to your calendar. Learning to say no to more. It is the first thing I tackle personally and with every new client, and I revisit it often, because yes has a creeping effect. If you don’t learn to say no to pretty much everything, then you aren’t going to have any margin or space in your life to say yes to the really important (net wealth) opportunities that come along. It is clear that most people don’t want to say no to anything - a peek into their lives and schedules makes me shudder - and keeps them running wide open and directionless 24/7. Their FOMO and YOLO keep their yeses rolling and their lives in disarray. They need a way to say no in the worse kind of way. This a decision, but it is also something you learn. Learn to say no.

The point of learning to say no is so that you can do your MIT’s, so that you can focus, so that you can have margin to say yes to the really important stuff, so that you can have a life! You are just going to be overclocked and underpowered all your life if you don’t learn to say no. It will be the hardest and best decision you ever made and ever accomplished.