Tuesday, February 4, 2025

The courage to answer

Will you say yes or will you say no? You’ll have plenty of opportunities to say both.

When those opportunities arise, give serious consideration to your answer. Then choose that answer and decisively go with it.

If you never say yes, you’ll miss out on many of the best things life has to offer. If you never say no, you’re inviting others to take advantage of you and to indulge their own mistaken expectations.

Your choice of yes or no won’t always turn out to be the best one. But don’t let that stop you from making it.

Say yes, or say no, then set about to bring the best possible outcome from your decision. Decide in advance to live with your choice, and do what’s necessary to follow through.

No standard answer works in every case, yet you can work to offer the best answer and then to make the best of what you choose. Each time, whether it’s yes or no, have the courage to answer and to move positively forward with that answer.

— Ralph Marston

Self kindness       Beyond discouragement

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