5-Minute Focus: Say Yes and Go Live Your Life

Finding Focus with Kathleen Davenport · Apr 10, 2024 · 5m

When I first started coaching many years ago, I worked with a lot of time and energy deprived people. They’d say, Kathy, how do I find more time in the day? How do I find more energy? The best thing I and many other coaches advised was for these very busy people to learn how to say no. Say no to the good so they could say yes to the great things they really wanted to do. No became the default response for getting through the day. Yet some people still found it hard to say no.

Nowadays, however, I find myself coaching people to say yes--with a difference. Don’t say yes just to appease someone…