When No is Yes

One of the most interesting part of daily living is sorting through tasks and opportunities, discerning the path one should take.  But should is a tricky word.  Do we ever really know if going a different way would have been better or worse?Are there not problems where we can expect more than one solution?

I’ve been thinking lately about the importance of not equating an opportunity to the way.  Indeed, any given opportunity might be antithetical to the path one is seeking.  In these cases, learning to say no delivers us further toward our goal, not only solidifying our position, but clarifying for us the boundaries of the path we are seeking which up to that point might have been quite vauge.

So the underlying issue here is the danger of becoming a “yes man” when the path one needs to navigate is made up of choices, regardless if that choice is yes or no.