Better Than Happy Jody Moore | A Powerful Yes

Do you ever find yourself saying yes to things without really thinking it through? We’ve all been there – flattered by an opportunity or eager to please someone we respect. But what if there was a better way? What if we could learn to give a more powerful, intentional yes?

In this episode, I explore the concept of a “powerful yes” that I learned from my friend and mentor, Dr. Benjamin Hardy. It’s about taking the time to thoroughly understand what you’re being asked to do, considering the benefits and sacrifices for both parties, and allowing space for change or even saying no if needed.

Join me this week to hear how, by learning to give a more powerful yes, we can improve our relationships with others and ourselves. We can be more honest about what matters to us and make sure our time and talents are being used in the best way possible. It may seem like a small thing, but I believe this subtle shift can have a big impact on our lives. Listen in to learn how!

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What You’ll Learn on this Episode:

Why it’s important to take your time and ask questions before saying yes to something.
How to allow space for a “no” in order to give a more powerful “yes”.
The benefits of being honest about what matters to you when considering an opportunity.
Why a powerful yes should allow for change and revisiting the terms later on.
How treating both parties as worthy of respect leads to better outcomes for everyone.

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We talk a lot in the world of self-help about saying no, about how we probably should all be saying no more often, about how to say no, about why it’s so hard to say no, but what about saying yes? Are we saying yes from a powerful place and why does that matter? That’s what I’m going to teach you today. Welcome to Better Than Happy, Episode 492, A Powerful Yes.

Welcome to Better Than Happy, the podcast where we transform our lives by transforming ourselves. My name is Jody Moore. In the decade-plus I’ve been working with clients as a Master Certified Coach, I’ve helped tens of thousands of people to become empowered. And from empowered, the things that seemed hard become trivial, and the things that seemed impossible become available, and suddenly, a whole new world of desire and possibility open up to you. And what do you do with that?

Well, that’s the question… what will you do? Let’s find out.

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Hello everybody. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today. I’m so delighted that you’re here. I so appreciate that you take the time to press play and give these concepts a chance, and I also appreciate how you share it and let other people know about it, please keep doing that. It helps me to get my work out into the world. It helps us to spread mental and emotional confidence and health as that is our mission.

So today we’re gonna talk about this concept of a powerful yes that I learned from my friend and teacher and mentor, Dr. Benjamin Hardy. I am in Dr. Hardy’s Q4, I can’t remember what he named it this year. Last year I took it too and it was called Rapid Transformation and it’s, maybe it’s the same name anyway, it’s a transformative challenge that he has done for a couple of years and well, he’s probably done it longer, but I only discovered it last year. This is my second year doing his Q4 challenge with him.

And Dr. Hardy, if you’re not familiar with him, is a brilliant author and teacher and coach. You can find him online. He has many amazing books. I highly recommend his work. At any rate, Dr. Hardy talks about this concept of a powerful yes and a powerful no. I’ve heard him mention it a few times. I never really thought too much about it. And recently when he said it on one of the calls I was on, I think it was like a pretty casual mention again. It’s not like something he elaborated on very long. I don’t even know exactly how he would define it, to be honest. But for some reason it stopped me in my tracks.

And I had one of those moments, have you ever had these moments where you kind of see a flashback of a bunch of different scenarios and all the pieces come together about what that concept means for you and your life and how maybe it’s an opportunity to develop yourself and evolve and grow. I had one of those kind of moments and it really got me excited about working on this because this is the kind of thing that’s easy to chalk up to like, well, it doesn’t matter. It’s not a big deal. Not like I’m doing anything really wrong. I’m not doing anything dishonest. I’m not harming anybody.

I could go my whole life with weak, powerless yeses, like I have been. And it would be fine. I wouldn’t know what I was missing out on. But I do believe that sometimes these little, subtle things that we change have a ripple effect in our lives in ways we can’t even anticipate. I think it’s not just about me having more powerful yeses, learning how to give more powerful yeses.

I think it’s also about my overall relationship with myself, the way I see myself, my relationships with other people, my interactions with other, and how much more intimate and connected and powerful those relationships could be. And all that can translate into so many different things for me personally, for my business, etc.

So it’s a little enough thing that it’s easy to just ignore, but it’s also a little enough thing that I do...