Can I really say no? This is the Daily Disturbance podcast with Anthony Fanginan. Well, you just did, by tooling out fully or even just partially from other matters you could have given your attention to as you tuned into this message. Well, you said no.
So assignment or perhaps a few notifications right on your phone, at least for the time being. You have been saying no, like me since the day you were born. Ella, you need to say. This was Maricel, my wife.
Ella Eldis. Longest labor experience. She said no. She refused to come out.
I'm not coming out. All the rest of the kids, Donnie, Hannah, Benjamin, Solana. Said no. Not to going out.
No. Said no to further incarceration inside the Domini. They jumped out. Seriously, Within a few minutes.
I mean, I think it was Ben's who was the fastest. Like, within 10 minutes of arriving in the hospital, he was out. No, I don't want to stay here anymore. Out.
How else? Okay, let's be real here. How else did you say no? Even at your early age?
Think about it. No, I won't stop crying so you can sleep. You know what I mean? No, I won't wait till we are home before I poop.
No, I won't eat those vegetables. Come on. No, I won't sit still and smile for the family picture. No, I won't tell you where I hid the car keys.
No, I'm not doing my homework. Come on, keep going. No, I'm not saying sorry. Okay, okay.
But only because I have to. No, I'm not taking a shower. No, I'm not going to bed. No, I'm not fixing my bed.
You come on. And I can and have been saying no all our lives because we have been saying yes to other things. To us more important things. Right.
To our preferences and biases. All our lives. Yes to the things we value, activities that we prefer, people we care about or maybe even fear. Yes.
Or perhaps yes to those we respect and honor more than others. You have been saying no all your life because of the yeses that you have been uttering all your lives as well. We have said no again and again to honor our many yeses. The question is, have we been saying yes to the right things?
To the appropriate things? To the people who really matter? To the priorities closest to our hearts and those purposes most aligned to our respective callings. Tamaba.
Shall we explore this tomorrow? Okay. Not today. You and I can and have been saying no all our lives.
This moment, including.