It’s amazing how many doors open up when you just say yes to stuff you don’t think you want to do. If a penny is on the sidewalk, pick it up.
It’s amazing how cluttered life becomes and how distracted you can be when you say yes to everything.
It’s amazing how focused and powerful you can become when you say no to almost everything. Suddenly all of your energy is aimed at a single target. The payoff is staggering and obvious.
Treat life like a big bag of marbles that you empty onto the kitchen table. Say yes.
The marbles roll this way and that. With minimal effort some of them stay in the middle of the table. Some roll towards the edge.
With minimal effort some can be shoved back to the middle. Others might be too fast to catch, and they fall off.
Balance your efforts. Let the marbles fall off that want to fall off. Focus on the few that remain solidly in the middle of the table. Let more and more marbles roll away until you have your few, your stable, your reliable marbles.
Now say no to new marbles.