Why Saying "No" Is The Ultimate Tool For An Expansive Life

Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Did you know that creativity, if you want to create something significant and meaningful

and timeless and lasting, you need margin in your life.

You cannot operate as if you're on a 5% battery.

Imagine if your phone were on a 5% battery.

Would you do any big downloads?

Would you make FaceTime calls?

Would you use the most active, high energy resources on the phone?

No, you couldn't. It would be impossible.

And this is how so many of us live our lives as if we're on this very low battery

because we're over scheduled, we're over planned, we're over booked.

Where is the time for boredom?

I was reading a book by a psychologist not long ago, a child psychologist,

and he said that we don't allow our children to be bored.

He said that children in America are often scheduled more than inmates in a prison.

There's school, there's extracurriculars, there are many, many, many routines,

and there's no time to sit, to think, to imagine today's dream.

And this isn't just important for children, we need it to.

If we're going to create something magnificent, we need more battery, we need more time, we need more space.

And this goes against our culture's respect for busyness, for efficiency, for non-stop productivity.

I don't care about those things, I am not interested in that narrative, what so ever.

What about you? Maybe you don't care, maybe you're happy running on low battery

and just getting it all done and that's satisfying.

But if you have a dream, if there's been something within you that you've wanted to be or do or have or creates,

it's going to require your battery and it's going to require your attention,

which means you're going to have to start turning things down.

Nobody else can do this for you.

But you have to choose what's more important to you in the long term.

Filling your days with busyness and just making it through your to-do list,

or that desire that you have for something significant.

Until tomorrow my friends, so much lovinies.

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