For your great life to occur, it’s important to understand the similarity between saying no out of fear and saying yes out of obligation.
When you say yes out of a sense of obligation, really this is a “difficult-no.”
But when you say no out of fear, really you’re dealing with a “difficult-yes.”
In both instances, your brain is trying to go against your heart.
There are all sorts of reasons to say no.
Maybe money is tight.
Maybe you’re worried about failure.
Maybe you think people will gossip about you.
Maybe if you chase after an unspoken dream, people will laugh at you.
And sure, all of these things might happen. When you do hard things, you will fail until you learn to do better.
People may laugh. People have always laughed.
And people will talk. People have always talked.
But you are the one holding yourself back.
The scary thing about the “difficult-yes” is that it’s a glimpse of a potentially amazing and emotionally stirring future for you.
The great thing about the “difficult-yes” is that the glimpse may be exactly what you’ve waited your whole life to be.
Question: “what unspoken dream right now feels like a difficult-yes?”
