Happy New Year!
In this first solo episode of 2025, I dive into the powerful concept of overcoming the "persistent yes, but" that so often holds us back from pursuing our goals and dreams - how small mental roadblocks can prevent us from taking meaningful action and shares a framework for transforming those "yes, buts" into "yes, ands."
Learn how reframing your internal dialogue and taking small, manageable steps can unlock new opportunities and change the course of your life. Whether you're into New Year's resolutions or not, this episode will inspire you to look at your goals in a fresh light.
Key Takeaways:
Persistent "Yes, But": Recognize the small but powerful voice that holds you back from action and identify what it is in your own life.
Reframe with "Yes, And": Shift from self-doubt and excuses to empowerment and progress by changing "Yes, but" into "Yes, and."
Small Steps Lead to Big Change: Break down large, overwhelming goals into smaller, manageable tasks to make progress every day.
Celebrate the Journey: Celebrate every step forward, even small wins and failures, to keep momentum going.
Experiment, Don’t Execute: Take the first step, experiment with your approach, and adjust along the way instead of stressing about a perfect plan.
Relevant Links:
Creative Genius and Flow: My earlier podcast on tapping into creativity and how it can support goal-setting: https://avishparashar.com/solo-episode-say-yes-and-to-creatively-using-ai/
Un-Edited Transcript
Do you ever find yourself thinking of a dream or a goal or an idea or even just some action you should take? And every time that idea pops up in your head and it pops up in your head a lot, a little voice comes up right away, your own voice saying, yeah, but.
Well, if so, you're not alone. And if so, you're in the right place because that voice might be the very thing that is holding you back from what you want and deserve, and we're gonna talk about that today on Yes And. Welcome to Yes And, the podcast where we explore the powerful idea of saying yes and instead of yes, but, and how you can use it in your career, your business, and your life. I'm your host, Avish Barushar, and this is Yes And. Am. Hello, and happy New Year. However you spent the last couple of weeks, I hope you enjoyed it.
I hope you had some time to pause and reflect and spend some time with people you care about. Now I don't know how you feel, because I know there are a lot of people out there that are very down on New Year's. They kinda pooh pooh it, like, oh, it's not a big deal. It's just another day. It's arbitrary.
And you know what? Those people are correct. You might be one of them. I'm not telling you you're wrong. But for me, I have always loved New Year's and always found it very special. It probably started out when I was young. As a kid, you know, my parents came over from India.
They were Hindu. I was raised Hindu. And so while we did, celebrate the secular aspects of Christmas, it was never that big of a deal. And the fact that when my parents moved here, there was no one else from their family here, so it wasn't even like this big time to get together with family. So Christmas was nice. I love getting presents and toys, but it was never like this super huge thing. But New Year's, New Year's was always a big deal because while we didn't have family here, my, dad, when he moved here, had a lot of his college and med school buddies had also moved here, you know, within a couple hours.
And so we periodically get together with them for dinner parties and things. And every year, for whatever reason, my family hosted the big New Year's Eve party. And so we get all these different families, a lot of kids and friends my age, and we would just play and play and play, stay up till midnight and later because, you know, it was New Year's. And you do the countdown, and it was just so much fun, some really special memories of spending New Year's with all these people and my family. And then as I got older on New Year's and I started getting into goal setting and building my own business and trying to achieve great things, I really got into the New Year's reset. And I know the popular thing is now to be like, don't set resolutions, and they don't work. And and, again, I agree.
But I love just the time to reflect and pause. And this can be any time. Right? My wife is a teacher, so for her, the New Year was always September, and that's when she would look forward to. And I do this periodically anyways. Could be quarterly. Could be just when I realize, you know, I'm in a bit of a funk.
Let me kinda reflect and stop and pause. And I always do it around New Year's because, you know, it's it's arbitrary, yes, but it's a time we've decided as a reset. We're gonna turn the calendar over. For many of us, if you're fortunate, you get to take a break from work and the hubbub. I'm a parent now with my own business, so I can't say I'm totally shut down or relaxed. But I am able to slow down a little bit and just be like, alright. Let's look forward.
So I love New Year's. I always have.
And so for this first episode of the yes and with Avish Parsho podcast, the first episode of the new year 2025, I want you to consider something. I'm gonna focus on this idea of setting big goals, and I'm actually gonna do 2 solo episodes. This is a solo episode, and I'm gonna do one more follow-up solo episode next week to dive deeper into some of the things I talk about here. But whether you are a New Year's person or not, whether you believe in resolutions or goals, I want you to consider, this one idea I'm gonna talk about today. And that is simply the idea of a persistent yes, but. Now if you have heard me speak before, familiar with my material, you know I talk about the difference between yes and and yes, but. There's an idea from the world of improv comedy.
It's one of the first things you learn in improv, saying yes and, supporting your partners, opening up creativity, adapting to the change and unexpected. And I believe that all people have what I call a persistent yes, but. And the persistent yes, but is this little voice. Like I said in the opening, you've probably got some goal, some idea, some it could be a big goal, like, oh, I would love to do x, y, and z with my life. I love to take this class or switch this class or switch this job or move to this other place, or it could be a small one. Could be a small little action item, like, you know what? I should really pick up the phone and call that person I haven't talked to in a while, or I should really, I don't know, clean out the garage.
Like, whatever it is. Right? You've got some idea that keeps popping up in your head over and over again, and every time it does, you say, yes, but to it. Like, yeah, but I wouldn't get a new job anyways, or yeah, but moving is such a big deal, or, yeah, but the garage is a giant project. I don't wanna do that right now.
Totally get it. It's very, very natural. But here's the thing, that persisting yes, but, that thing you have been saying yes, but to over and over again might be the very thing that when you switch and say yes and to it, it changes everything. Because if your mind keeps giving you that idea over and over and over again, it means on some level, your subconscious thinks that idea has merit. It thinks there might be something there. It thinks it would be valuable to do. Things that might move the needle forward for your life or your career or your business or your relationships or peace of mind or whatever.
So when we take a look at what that persisting yes but is, and then switch to yes and, this is how we can really suddenly make a huge difference. You know, I think that as someone who talks about creativity and has lived in the goal setting space for a long time, we as people always want something new. Like, let me figure out what I really wanna do, or let me try to come up with a new plan and new ideas. And believe me, as someone who likes to think of myself as innovative and enjoys creativity, I I get that totally. But here's the thing. I think so many times, the solution to our problems is not in coming up with something new. It's not outside of our level of knowledge.
It's just that we know the answer. We're just saying yes, but to it. Now if you think for a minute, think about what your yes, but might be. And if you don't have one jumping to your mind right now, though I think if you really think about it, you probably do. But if you don't, don't worry. In a little bit, I'll get into some ways you can identify your persistent. Yes. But, I'm not saying this to criticize you, by the way.
I'm not saying that, oh, you know you know the answer. You're being dumb and not just doing it, because it's natural. Right? We all do this. I did this, and I tell this story in my keynotes. I'll do an abbreviated version here. But basically, I started in this business as a professional speaker almost 22 years ago now, and it took me a long time to really build my business and get it going.
And when I started, I was really aspirational. I'm like, I'd read a lot of motivational speaker stuff. I was a fan of Tony Robbins at the time and had read lots of books on goals and setting huge dreams. And so I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna start my speaking business, and, you know, I'm gonna build it really fast. And I went to a meeting of the National Speakers Association, which is great. But when I got there, people were telling me, you know, this is gonna take, it takes, like, 3 to 5 years to really build a business.
Now at this point, I didn't have a job or a lot of money saved up, so I'm like, 3 to 5 years. Come on. That's way too long. I'm gonna knock this out much faster. Besides, I'm a high achiever. I'm one of these people that's always done really well at things I put my mind to, so I'm gonna knock this out in, like, a year. You know, maybe 18 months top to build my business.
Well, let's just say that didn't really happen, because 2 years had gone by, and at this point, my business was really struggling. I wasn't getting very many speaking gigs at all. The speaking gigs that we're getting, a lot of them were for free, just exposure, or maybe they would provide breakfast or dinner. And I'm like, oh my god. And then I had a speaker give me a piece of advice. And he said, if your business is not as successful as you want it to be, you are not as good as you need to be. And I was like, woah.
That is awesome advice. That is a game changer. And upon hearing that advice, I went back, and that advice changed absolutely nothing in my business, because I didn't apply it to myself. It sounded great on paper as a theoretical thing, but as I thought about it, the yes buts kicked in. Yeah, but that doesn't really apply to me because I am really good. Yeah, but my audiences and clients always speak so highly of my program. My issue is that I'm not good.
Yeah, but my programs are very different from a traditional speaker. And so it's not that I'm not good. It's that I need to do a better job of explaining to people how I combine improv and speaking. Right? The yeah buts, the yeah buts, the yeah buts. So I continued on, ignoring this advice and trying everything I could to build my speaking business, except of course for, if your business is not as good as you want it to be, or as successful as you want it to be, you are not yet as good as you need to be. And this went on for a few more years.
And then something happened that changed my life, which is I met my wife, or the person who'd go on to become my wife. And when we met, she understood what my business was at, how it wasn't super successful and making a lot of money. And she was fine with it, because she believed in me, and she was falling for me. And, you know, she's like, alright. You can do this. She she thought it would work. But then time passed, my business wasn't growing. And then the reality started to set in for her. Right? As we started looking to the future about wanting to get married and get buy a house together, have kids.
You know, she was like, I don't think this is gonna work because I had a dream. Right? I was gonna have this big successful speaking business, but she also had a dream. And her dream was simpler than mine and no less relevant though. She just simply wanted to be able to be a stay at home mom when we had kids. That's it. She didn't wanna have to work.
And she looked at my business that was still struggling and was like, oh, you know what? There's no way with your business being like this that I'm gonna be able to be a stay at home mom. And so this led to us talking, which led to us disagreeing, which over time became really honestly more about fighting, because she saw me as someone who wasn't doing the things I needed to do. I was holding on to this dream I had for, I don't know, at this point, 6, 7 years, and it wasn't growing. So from her perspective, why would I suddenly make it all work when it hadn't for so long? And she just thought I wasn't being realistic. And she was very worried about our future, and frankly, she was right because at that point, there was no way my business wasn't going to.
But I was the ever optimist, like, I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. But I never did. Right? And so we fought a lot. And it really came to a head one day at a bad time when, we had just gotten engaged. Right? Because we still loved each other, and we got engaged.
And there's a happy occasion, and it was. We had an engagement party. But then soon after that, that night actually of the engagement party after everyone had left, we got into another fight. And I think the fact that we are now engaged and we had a party made it all more relevant in our future. Right? It made it more realistic. It made it more to the forefront.
And we had another fight, and it was another bad one. And then really later that night, I was sitting there thinking about this. I was lying in bed, and I just couldn't sleep. And I was thinking about my business and how it had been years, like 7 years. Right? It was supposed to be 3 to 5 years is what the speakers told me. And And I said I'll do it in 1 year, but I didn't.
And I didn't do it 3 to 5 years. And this is 7 years in, and I'm still struggling.
Still not getting a lot of bookings. Still struggling to pay my bills. Not even paying my bills because I racked up a lot of credit card debt at this point. And I'm lying there, and I'm thinking, what's going on? And then I thought about my fiance now and how all I really wanted to do was make her happy, but I wasn't. I was the cause of her biggest stress at this point. And then as I'm lying there, I heard that voice again, which I heard many times, and I always said yes, but to it.
That persistent yes, but again. If your business is not as successful as you want it to be, you are not as good as you need to be. And so I really took it to heart that night, and I made a decision. And I woke up the next morning, and I went to my fiancee, and I said, look, I understand you got a lot of stress about this, and you don't think this is gonna work.
And you're right. I haven't proven that I can make it work. So let me try one more thing. I am going to apply this advice that I have not tried for a long time, and I'm just gonna work on making my content really, really good. And I laid out a plan for 6 months, and I said, here's what I do for 6 months, and here's the financial goals I'm gonna hit every month. And if I don't hit these goals, I will quit. I will give up this business, and I'll go get a, quote, unquote, regular job that's stable so we can move forward, and we can build a life together.
And she agreed, and I got to work. And I started working a lot of my content, and I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that later and next week about some of the things I did and the the mindset I took to it. But at the end of the day, I made my presentation in Keynote much, much better. I let go of this belief of, oh, you're already good. You just gotta do all these other things. I finally applied the advice from that persistent, yes, but, and business got better. The audience response got better.
As the audience response got better, some word-of-mouth started happening, and I started getting bookings. And as those bookings came in, the money started coming in. And I hit those financial goals, and over 6 months, I hit all the goals, and I built my business. And when a couple years later, I had paid off all that credit card debt. And most importantly, when our first child was born, my wife was able to quit her job and be a stay at home mom, and it all worked out. Now this is not me telling you the story to talk about how amazing I am and look at my great business. Right? It's a story about how dumb I was for so long ignoring my persistent yes buts.
I had the very answer to my problem 2 years into my speaking business. If your business is not as successful as you want it to be, you are not as good as you need to be. I heard that advice. It resonated with me, and I just said, yes, but to it. When I finally said, yes, and to it, 5 years later, that's when my business finally started to grow. So I think we all have these. I think you have a persistent yes, but as well.
And here's the thing. On the base level, simply saying yes, but to that idea in our head, what it does on a small level is it delays and denies to a degree. Right? It it puts us off from doing the thing that might move the needle forward. That might make us happy, and eventually might deny. Right? If you never get around to saying if you keep saying yes, but to it, you may miss out on the opportunity to ever say yes, and to it. Right? The opportunity might pass you by, environments and circumstances might change, or let's be honest, we're all gonna die eventually. Right? And at some point, you may die with that yes, but never having been resolved.
A great quote I heard once from Wayne Dyer. I don't know. He might not be the originator of this, but he said his uncle told him, don't die with your music still inside of you. And I think that's what the persistent yes, but does. It keeps our music inside of you. And that's on a small scale. Right? On a larger scale though, I think that a persistent yes, but is absolutely draining and demoralizing.
Having this thing in your head that you keep saying yes, but to is so draining. I feel like the number of times that I have ended a day feeling like, oh, what a waste of a day. I've never felt that way when I have said yes, and to my persistent yes, If I have an idea in my head, and I'm like, you know this could really move the needle forward, but I've been saying yes, but to it. Let me focus on it for a little bit. The end of that day, if I have worked on that, I feel better. I feel happier. And when you start to stack up our days, that feeling builds and it compounds.
And over time, this is how we build a life. Whether or not you achieve those big goals and dreams, it's not about having to achieve it. It's about how we approach our day to day, and whether we say yes, and to that little voice in our head. Hey. This is Avish with a quick promotional interlude. Are you planning a conference or event and looking to energize it with humor and insight? My funny and interactive keynote experiences turn yes, and into powerful lessons for your attendees.
Check out video clips and learn more at avishpartnersher. com. Now back to the episode. So that was my persistent yes, but back in the day, and really saying yes, and do would change everything. So let's come back to you. What is your persistent yes, but I'm gonna ask you that question again, and just think of your gut answer. What's the first idea that pops in your mind?
What's your persistent yes, but? What's that idea that you have been popping in your head over and over again? Your mind keeps telling you you should do this. You should try this. Here's a action you could take, and you keep saying yes, but to it.
Jot it down somewhere. Write it down. Make a note of it. You don't do anything about it right now. The first step starts with identifying it. And again, this is a repetitive process. It's not a one off.
I tell you what my yes, but was, my persistent yes, but was. Well, I've still got more. I've got them now. Right? This was years ago that I solved that persistent yes, but, and now I've got more. You know what one of them is? One of them is, if your business is not as successful as you want it to be, you need to be better.
You are not as good as you need to be. I followed that advice years ago.
My business improved. Then I got caught up following advice of other people, content, products, alternate revenue, and I keep forgetting that, hey, that's the one thing that always works for you. And I keep telling myself yeah, you should, but the yes, but comes up. So even though I solve that quote unquote, it's back. And so this year I started again working on it like alright, let's work on your material. For 2025 my personal be so good or persistent yes but goal is to work on storytelling I'm like I have been a pretty good storyteller but I need to do more I need to tell more stories I need to tell them better both in my keynote and in my podcast and my writing I've got others though For a long time, I was yes budding cold marketing. I never wanted to do it.
I didn't think it worked. And when I did do it about 5 or 6 years ago, it worked.
My business grew. And then COVID happened, and I stopped. And so and then I started again early this year, but then I said, yes, but because it wasn't working. But then when I looked at the numbers, it actually did work.
So now I'm back on that. I'm gonna say yes, and to revisiting Cole Marketing. There's also bigger yes ands and yes buts I've had. Right? I have thought for a long time about doing this, small retreat model where I get people together for 1, 2, maybe 3 days, I do really dive deep into yes and and some improv principles, but not for improv comedy, but for life, for creativity, for goal setting, for for breaking through inner barriers. Right? And I thought about this for a long time, and every time the yes buts come up.
The yes, buts are like, yeah, but is anyone gonna come? Yeah, but is that gonna take away from your keynote? Yeah, but how are you gonna work that? Yeah, but the logistics I'm like, you know what?
Now's the time. For 2025, we're gonna say yes, and to that. We're gonna do a retreat. I've also about writing a new book. I've been saying yes, but to for a long time. I've been, thinking about doing some consulting, which I'm just starting to do now, helping companies build yes and cultures, which I think is super powerful and would be awesome. But, Well, I've done some of that work before never in a targeted way, and there's always been that, yeah, but.
It's a lot of work. Yeah, but do you really wanna do that? So there's a lot of yes, buts. Now this can get overwhelming. Right? Our pride is rattled off 5. You don't have to do them all at once.
This is the first step. So I made a big dump of my persistent yes, buts, and what I'm doing is I'm systematically knocking them off. I'm starting with the cold marketing one, then I'm going to move into the storytelling one, Then I'm gonna move into the Retreat one. Now circumstances may change if all of a sudden I start getting a lot of leads for consulting, it might change. But the point is, you pick something, you pick 1. Yes, but, and turn it into a yes, and. So as you think about this year, whether you're a big goal setter and resolution maker and new year person or not, think about your life.
And maybe you're lit you know, these are podcasts I recorded, so maybe this isn't even the new year for you. Think about your life.
Just ask your question. What's my persistent yes, but?
And see what happens. See what pops up. And don't judge it. Just make a note of it, and then make a note of everything that comes up. Free write. Write down a list of all your persistent yes, buts. Alright. So that's step number 1.
Now what really helps here is creativity. Understanding how to access your creativity by going fast and flowing, and I'll link back to it. A few episodes ago, I did a deep dive. It's like like a 45 minute long podcast all on how to access and develop your creativity. So go back to that one that will help you a lot on how to do this. So number 1 start with a brain dump. What are all your persisting yes, buts? Number 2.
Go back through that list and start identifying, which are the ones you want to start with? And there's a few approaches you can take here. Number 1, you can tackle the biggest one. Like you know what? This is the biggest one. Let me eat the frog and go for it. Number 2.
You've got for the small one. You're like, you know what? I'll build a little momentum. So this persisting us buds been there for like 2 years. I've been thinking about this. Making that phone call, taking that class. I can knock that off in a day or a week.
Just sign up or whatever it is. So start with a small one to build some momentum. Number 3. This is the way I like to approach it. Which one is going to have the biggest positive impact? To take a notch from a book called The One Thing by Gary Keller, ask yourself a question. What one thing, if I did, would make everything else easier or unnecessary?
And pick that. That's one of the reasons I'm picking cold marketing. Because the more speaking gigs I get, the easier everything else gets. It helps me build a platform for the podcast. It helps me get followers to potentially come to a retreat. It helps me connect with potential clients for consulting. And not least importantly it puts revenue in my pocket, which I can then use to fund some of these things.
So I'm like you know what let's let's start with that. So three ways the biggest one, the smallest one, or the one that's gonna make everything else easier, or unnecessary. So pick your one. Then say yes, and to it. How can you reframe that as a yes, and?
And usually, it's just the opposite. Right? It's I wanna do a retreat. Yeah, but is anyone gonna come? Yes, and let me put together a marketing plan to get people to come there. Oh, cold marketing. Yeah, but it's so boring, and you always get sort of mind numbingly bored when you do it and you taper off.
Yes, and how can I make the process more efficient and interesting? Which I have been doing already for the last month and a half, and it's been working. I still don't really enjoy it, but it's much more effective. It takes me less time, and I found ways of slightly enjoying the process. So how can you switch your yes, buts to yes, and, and literally write these down, so you can refer to them. So when that yes, but pops in your head, you can refer back to the thing you wrote down. The next thing you can do is when you've got that persistent yes, but is to break it down in a task and shrink the task.
So for example, for me, cold marketing. It's a giant task. Right? That's really a mega project. It's a multiple step project. So let me break it down to step by step. Alright. Well, for cold marketing, first I need to find associations that have conferences.
Then I need to decide whether I think that conference is a good fit, and if they're looking for a speaker. Then I gotta get the contact information with the person. Then I gotta contact the person. Right? That's a bunch of steps. Alright. We'll start with the first step.
I need to identify associations that might have conferences. Right? This is my cold marketing system. So then it's, like, alright. How do I find those?
Well, break it down. Well, I got past places I've reached out to that maybe are worth revisiting. I could do Google searches. Right? So I've created a document that has these things down. So keep shrinking the task until you get to a point where you're like, alright.
Now I can start. Now I can take the first step. So for me, it was just, I had an old spreadsheet of cold mark and leads, and the first step was just to start going through them. And the very first step was the first one. I got the spreadsheet of leads. Take the first lead that's on there. Go to the website of that lead and just got the ball rolling, which brings to the next step, which is think experimentation not execution.
When you shrink the task, you want the first step to be an experiment. People get so caught up when they try to have a whole completed plan set up. From a to z, what is everything I'm gonna do? And then I gotta execute that plan. And I think that is a good way to never get started. So shrink the task but think experimentation. So I did not know how it would go when I did the first step. When I visited that first website, was I gonna feel that dread?
Was it not gonna work? Was it going to feel futile? And what I found is that, you know, it wasn't fun, but then but if you think experiment, then how do I improve this? Okay. So then I figured out, oh, well, what if I wrote a script in Google Sheets to help do some of the grunt work? Oh, okay. Well, that would eliminate this part of the process. Oh, cool.
Well, what if I got a and I found it sometimes very frustrating trying to find contact information. Oh, well, what if I found a tool that makes us more efficient? And what if I found a system? So what you do is you think experiment. You don't just jump right in and say, this is what I have to do from start to finish. You say, let me take the first step and then analyze. How did that work?
How can I improve it? Because when you do this, number 1, the process keeps getting better. And number 2, it takes so much pressure on the makes it more fun and more enjoyable when you think of experimentation, because failing is not only okay, it's good. If you're like, oh, I did something that doesn't work. Well, now I can learn from it. Versus, oh, I did something that doesn't work. Oh, this is terrible.
And finally, celebrate progress. You don't need to celebrate just when you reach the end result. Celebrate the fact that you took action. Celebrate the little steps. Celebrate the little victories you get. Like, I started a cold thing. Literally, I sent 2 cold emails.
I got one person already replying back, saying we're not interested because we only hire industry people, not motivational speakers. I celebrated that. I'm like, wow. They responded. Did I get a booking? No. Did I get a lead? No. But the more you celebrate the process, the more motivated you are to continue the process, the more you say yes and to the process.
So celebrate progress, not just victories. So to recap, as you go into setting goals, whether it's for 2025 or the future, middle of the year, whatever. Number 1, identify your persistent yes buts. You've all got them. Brain dump, go back and listen to creativity podcast. You can see how to really tap in your inner creative genius and get this flow going. But make a big dump of all your persistent yes buts.
Number 2, pick 1. Prioritize. Right? The biggest, the smallest, or the one that's gonna have the biggest impact. Number 2, say yes, or number 3, say yes, and to it. Reframe that yes, but. Rephrase it as a yes, and.
And if you've got multiple yes, buts around one goal, reframe everyone to number 1, come up with a mantra, come up with a refrain when your mind says yes, but. You know immediately what to say with a yes, and.
Number 3, shrink the task. If it's too big, if it's too daunting, if it's overwhelming, shrink the task down until it gets to a small little yes and you can say to and get started. Number 4, get started and think experimentation, not execution. Right? You don't need to be perfect. You don't need to have the whole thing figured out. You don't need to succeed right away. Think experiment.
Let me take the first few step or the first few steps and see what I can learn from this, and how it can adapt and adjust and repeat, repeat, repeat. And finally, celebrate progress. It's not about just celebrating the reward. If you celebrate the steps, celebrate the little progress, and celebrate the little failures because it's still a result, you're gonna be more motivated to keep going. You're gonna feel more positive, and eventually, you get somewhere very interesting. So that is my kickoff to the New Year episode about your persistent yes buts. What I'd love for you to do is share with me. Right? Email me at avish@avishparsher.com.
Let me know what your persistent yes but is. Or if you found this, episode on social media, you can go to my social media either on LinkedIn or Facebook. I'm just Avishparsher on those. Leave a comment. Let me know what is your persistent yes, but? How did you do with this? Also, if you got a question, you're not sure what your persistent yes, but is, you're not sure how to apply some of the things I talked about on this episode, go ahead and, email me. Again, avish@avishparshare.com. Let me know.
I'm happy to help. I'm not gonna charge you for it. I mean, if you've got some absurd request, like, you need, like, 5 hours of coaching, that's one thing. But if you just wanna email me the question, I'm I'm happy to help. Frankly, it's also research for me. Knowing what the questions my listeners have are helps me know how to refine and improve my content going forward. Again, experimentation, not execution.
And finally, share this episode. Share it on your social media. Share it with a person or people who you know are into this sort of thing, who wanna set goals, or who've been struggling for a while, and you're like, this might be a little nudge for them, share this episode with them. Just say, hey. I think you'd appreciate this. I think you'd enjoy it about saying yes and you're persistent. Yes. But So thank you so much for listening.
Again, happy new year, and I'm looking forward to making 2025 the year that I say yes and to my persistent yes buts and then making it the year that I help you say yes and to your persistent yes buts as well.