I suspect exhaustion, like insanity, has its roots in repeatedly doing the same thing whilst expecting a different result. This morning, the thought occurred when reading an email that referred to Mark Manson's advice that "if it isn't a F****** YES, it'd a NO".
There's a thread in many of the conversations I hear and articles I read that are long on "maybe" - maybe if we just hold on and improvise, things will go back to normal. But, I think that, increasingly, the majority of us, unless we're in politics, recognise that is not going to be the case. So, it is time to apply the YES! Filter.
If we ditch the procrastination, there is a lot of space for yes. What we want from our work, what it adds to our lives beyond money, who we work with, and what that work does.
It is recognising that we have choices and that those choices carry responsibilities.
Every business and every project is finite and the span is getting shorter. There is the initial energy and excitement and the security of fu…
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