As I always want to inspire you to get rid of those useless things in your life, in the last day of the challenge, I'll be covering something a little bit different. There are things that might not be filling your physical space, but they are cluttering your mind, stealing your happiness, stealing your time, and stealing your ability to achieve greater things. When we strive to live a life full of passion, we have to accept the idea of saying no to more things, then we say yes to. And yes, it is really difficult to say no to some opportunities and people that seemed like a good fit. This is why it is so important to know exactly which things we want to experience and with whom we want to experience those things. This is not to say that you can't meet new people or that you should never ever start a new different project.

But if we continue to To say yes to all of those things that are presented into our lives, we will end up leaving lives with no meaning whatsoever. As Ray Dalio said. I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. So two or three years ago, my best friend came to me with a project that we could start together. And that would make us a little bit of money. It consists on selling beauty products from a specific brand.

So she was really excited to start it with me and I couldn't really say no, but in reality, I knew exactly that. I didn't want to be doing it. Because I've tried. I've tried something similar in the past and I really didn't enjoy it. But for some reason, I did say yes, we did it for six months in I ended up making a few extra bucks, but I was really frustrated. I just felt that every hour I dedicated to it was a waste of my time.

But things were going really well. And we actually ended up getting a free trip in a five five star hotel with everything paid. in that hotel. There were a lot of those top sellers of the beauty products. And you know, which was more or less the start of something even bigger. But in the end of that weekend in that five star hotel with a lot of parties and workshops, I literally came to my friend and I told her that I didn't want to continue anymore.

And so even though I was making money, it was working with someone I really enjoyed. I had free beauty products I had free paid hotel, you know, I that wasn't something that was really fulfilling me and there's nothing more dreadful than doing something you don't want to do. So I gave up on it. And I started dedicating those hours to do things that I really love to do. Even though Those things were not making me any money. This made me learn a very important lesson at a very, very early age.

I should never say yes to the things that don't really make me excited, or to the things that I'm not really passionate about. Accepting every opportunity might seem like the best thing to do. But in reality, it is our duty to say no to all of those because we should protect our most important and meaningful work. It's our obligation to protect our biggest goals and dreams and being busy all the time working on meaningless tasks and projects is not the same thing as being productive. As the author of the book. essentialism said, we can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people's agendas to control our lives.

So start by saying no to all of those things that are not your priorities. Greg McEwen covers a really important idea On his book, essentially, it says that when you say no to someone, you are not rejecting that person, you just say no to their idea to their projects or to their invitation, you are not rejecting the person. And if you make it clear that you are always saying no, because you are other things that you already are committed to, they're probably not going to be that hurt. Has Derek sciver set. If it is not a hell yes. Then it's a no.

When I read Derek Severs book, I was fascinated by his ways, his clear way of thinking and making decisions. And I've been really, really trying to only say yes, when it's a hell yes. And I've been trying to say no to all of those things that are not really my thing. And I think that staying true to myself is more important than anything else in the world. And when you start to say no to all of those non essential projects and tasks, you can say yes to all of them. Things that you really want to be doing.

If you have more time, you can go pick the most important things. You can spend more time with your family, doing the work you love, and going on vacations and trying to experience more meaningful things. As Greg McEwen said, if it's not a nine or 10, then it's a one. And I don't mean that selfishly. I mean, is this the best way I can contribute to others to society? Is this my very highest point of contribution, we need to see the difference between things that are good and things that are exceptionally good.

It's an important distinction in the world exploding with options, people will call you crazy. If you say no to some of those opportunities, they will tell you you will regret that decision. They will say you are never ever going to have an opportunity like that. And it will make you to think a lot but it's also so Important to stay committed to our own priorities, even if that means sometimes disappointing someone. But when you say no to most things, you will have the ability to say yes to the best things. As Warren Buffett said, the difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

To end the challenge. I challenge you to say no to something that might emerge in the next few days, or to cancel some commitment that you are not really into doing.