My younger self would have seen this statement as a challenge and asked with a saucy smile, “Are you sure about that?”
This older and wiser version of me knows better and actually grieves the years I spent trying to be too many things to too many people. My mantra used to be “I got this” with little thought to whether I needed to have it or not.
I have learned to say no, or say nothing, which is maybe even more powerful.
Now, Worn-out Wonder Women make me nervous. I feel like a recovering junkie: If I get too close to their whirlwind lives, they will suck me back into the vortex of Being All Things to All People. The affirmation that comes from keeping friends, colleagues, bosses, families and spouses happy can be intoxicating.
But to paraphrase Emerson, it gives no peace. Wonder Women are running from or towards something, for sure. In my own case, I was trying to find something that I already had. But I was moving too fast to know or appreciate or enjoy it. Now I try really hard to be still and present, but I can only do that if I have time.
And I can only have time if I tell others No.
No to commitments that only serve me or my ambition
No to people who do not know or care about my family.
No to people or things that do not bear fruit.
I only owe one yes in my life, and that’s to God.
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Full Of Graces 
You got this. 🙂