Say No — to Say Yes to What Matters

Today I want to share a very simple, yet very critical time-management skill that usually is underestimated.
But not having this skill can seriously sabotage your best efforts to get things done and to move towards your goals in life.
The skill I’m talking about is to say no — primarily in your mind — to everything that is not what you really want.
Sure there are a gazillion opportunities out there waiting for you to jump on them. There is so much information and advice waiting to devour your attention. And of course, there are dozens of things on your to-do list waiting to get checked off.
But what is the one thing that is all about you?
What one thing is expressing your core dream?

KEEP WALKING......

It was one of those days I had to arrive at work just about when the sun was rising in order to meet a very tight deadline I thought was ‘impossible’ to meet, but I did anyway.  And after trying my best to complete a portion of the report, I was somewhat tired by brunch time, so I needed to, as it were, ‘stretch my muscles’ outside the four walls of my shared office. 

I had just walked in and resumed my seat next to the Sony radio/cd player when Nat Brew’s ‘history-telling’ tune – ‘W) gb3 j3k3’ was just about ending on Adom FM’s multilingual presenter, Ohemaa’s show. I liked that tune so much that I had to access Google’s popular music video portal, YouTube to listen to it again…and again… and again….throughout the rest of the day and week actually. I had heard this tune since I was initiated into puberty, but it didn’t really make sense to me like it’s been doing over the last couple of days.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!

A certain ring announcer made this his trademark catchphrase whenever he was about to introduce a bout, in which two physically endowed men punched each other with all the strength they could garner, without mercy and in certain instances, one party literally beaten to pulp. He’s made over $ 400m from patenting these few words. Michael Buffer made this catchphrase gain currency in our boxing parlance. It’s almost like it’s impliedly supposed to be screamed at every boxing bout the world over.

It usually goes like this: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls…LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLET’S GET READY TO RUMBBBBBLLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!! [Yeah! The tongue is kept rolled in the mouth in order to stretch the ‘L’ in “let’s”!] I usually wouldn’t ‘enjoy’ a boxing bout whenever I missed that phrase, even if it was the infamous bout in which the church usher Evander Holyfield got his ear bitten by a certain bald-headed heavyweight Iron Mike Tyson whose punch weighed more than a bag of Ghacem cement, or the latter’s famous tumultuous defeat by the dreadlocked Brit Lennox Lewis. It was that serious, really!