You can say NO!!! Life lessons and a plan for goals…

Daily writing prompt

How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

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Life, we live it, breathe it and deal with the ups and downs of every aspect of it… So if you don’t say NO occasionally, how can you survive, and will the people you say NO to except it or ditch you because you put yourself, your family, or something you deem more critical first…

That is always the greatest quandary in life if I say NO will I upset someone, but if I don’t how will I ………………?

Over the cause of many years, lessons, and issues to do with the BIG N-O issue I have found that no matter what you do it will not satisfy or save you from issues that arise with saying NO to someone.

There are those in life that if you say NO to are fine and excepting of that boundary or whatever your reason, these are the genuine people that can accept that not everything in life suits their timeframes.

But, then you have those people that are constantly asking for something, and the moment you say NO they get dirty on the situation and call you out for NEVER helping them.

Then you have those that will happily take your help, assistance, etc and NEVER return the favor and always say NO to you because they are too busy, too much on, not this time, take a raincheck…. yeah, you know the type…

Have YOU ever had to say NO to something or someone that will interfere with your goals???

So here it is, I have never actually said no to someone or something that could interfere with my goals as I have always thought helping out with the old adage “what goes around comes around & Karma baby” would always find a way to assist me with what I am dreaming of doing.

But, I have also put in extra effort to make sure that despite holding off on those goals I am still plugging away in the background at them.

Yoga, Nursing, and Running the commonwealth games, these were all big goals as I went through life.

The yoga I steadily plugged away in the background of life as a fair few people would say (let’s see how many have heard this one) You can’t make yoga a job, (musicians, singers, dancers, actors anyone heard this???).

Nursing I did because I figured I would need to help out my parents eventually so became an aged care nurse, Hairdressing, that was because I needed a creative outlet, the commonwealth games were because I could run and knew I would win (by the way, I go bursitis in the hip and couldn’t do the comm games on the Gold Coast), journalism, because well why not I loved photography and writing and they where good fits…

However, Yoga and photography were goals that I am still working to achieve, through extra education, practice, and through forging ahead in something that I kept in the background.

Now I homeschool four children and still don’t say NO, because if I am meant to do this the goal will stay in my heart and keep that steady growth as I homeschool myself.

I love what people have as goals, I love to hear them, love to see them, and love to watch them blossom just like the flowers in the field. I don’t think anything could really get in the way of my goals in life as I believe that the goal is my life and it will all fall perfectly in place at that right moment in time, when the universe says it is NOW… then and only then will I start saying NO because the universe has said NOW.…

Keep with those dream, no matter how large or small because you deserve to be happy in life.