What if the price of saying no is too high to pay? This is the daily service podcast with Anthony Unghemann. So, a friend of mine invested a few thousand pesos on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. A few thousand pesos?
Okay, that's about a year and a half ago. I had the opportunity then, but I said no. Now. My friend's investment of a few thousand pesos today is worth a couple of million.
Oh goodness. Too high a price to pay for saying no? It's more like too high an opportunity lost for not saying yes. But is it possible that the price of saying no is too high to pay?
That we shouldn't do it? Well, what is high? If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then value is also in the eye of the investor. How much is too high?
How much is just enough? How much is too little? Well, in the end, that depends on you. But here are four ways.
Okay, four ways to assess if saying no is too high a price to pay from your point of view. Meaning it's too high a price to pay. Don't. Don't say no.
You should say yes. Number one, if declining. Okay, listen carefully. This commitment will mean failure to fulfill a more important, meaning more valuable commitment.
It's not worth to decline it. If. However, giving in. If you give in to this commitment will mean gaining your spouse's trust right over this client's favor, then it is too high a price to decline it.
It's not worth saying no. And I've done this in the past and regretted it big time. If declining. Number one, declining this commitment will mean failure to fulfill a more important, more valuable commitment to you, then it's not worth to decline it.
If giving in to this commitment will mean gaining your spouse's trust over this client's favorite, then it is too high a price to decline it. It is not worth saying no. And I've missed this in the past and I regret it big time. Number two, if opposing this offer, a request or demand will mean not honoring my values, I will go against my own principles, the sacred principles of my life, my key foundations, Ang Mangapung, Dasung, Buheko, then it may be too high a price to oppose it.
It's not worth saying no. Mark 8:36 and I quote, what does it profit a man, right? If he gains the whole world but loses his own soul? Number three, from your point of view, okay, if not doing a particular option will mean irrepatable damage to my overall health and well being, whether it's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, right, all of that, then it is too high a price not to do it.
It's not worth it to say no. Even as I speak, I'm helping our friend who kept on saying no to opportunities to spend time with his family's partner to to step back from work and find some time for rest and relaxation and balance. Leading to what? The breakdown of his home?
His partner is gone, so is his health. And to this day he regrets saying no. Yes, it is possible that not doing the option will mean devastating consequences not just to you, but to your loved ones too. John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this to lay down one's life for one's friends.
Jesus did not say no to the cross, as not facing it would be too high a cost for me and you. If Number four, turning my back on God's word and leading will mean not hearing the still small voice that guides me, you know, my conscience, my value system, the Holy Spirit within me, then it will be too high a price to say no. It won't be worth it. Saying no to God's direction will lead me to all the distraction and the temptation that so easily entangle us all.
If you're honest, as I should be myself. Saying no to ourselves, right? Our core best selves has led to the silencing of the song within us, the deadening of the spirit wishing to be set free, the killing of the life within, longing to be fully lived. You know this thought, right?
To die with one's song, one spirit, one's life still unleashed within. What could be a greater tragedy? What if the price of saying no is too high to pay? Well, if D declining a commitment will mean failure to fulfill a more important, you know, mean more valuable commitment.
If oh if opposing an offer, request, you know, or demand will mean not honoring my core values, my sacred principles, my key foundations. If N not doing the option before me will mean irreparable damage to my overall health and well being, whether it's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. If t turning my back to God's direction and leading will mean failure to hear, that's still a small voice within me, my inability to listen, to whisper, you know, the whisper of my conscience, my value system, the Holy Spirit in me. If these four things right will be the price to pay.
It is not worth it. D O n T D Declining the commitment will mean failure to fulfill a more important one. Opposing this offer will mean not honoring my core values and not doing the optional irreparable damage to my well being d turning my back to God's direction will mean my failure to hear the still small voice and the spirit within me. Then d o n t Don't.
Don't say no. It'll be too high a price to say no. Simply say yes.