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How many times have you put a period where you should have put a comma? Today's saying is yes and yes and as opposed to just ending a sentence. Use your own voice to come to a place that's a win win for both parties.
How many times have you put a period where you should have put a comma? And we're talking figurative here, not necessarily literal. Hi, I'm Jill. This is Mary. We are the co founders of Girls Mentorship. And we are in a series right now talking all about the power of the tongue. Because, realistically, how many of you actually say things that are empowering to yourself when you get frazzled or flushed, flustered or po'd? I'm not one of those people. We tend to say things without even really knowing it that are very disempowering, disheartening, flat out rude to ourselves when things don't go our way.
So conversations that we're in on a daily basis, not only with our clients and ourself, are all around the empowering things. So mantras, things that we can repeat to ourselves to remind us that we're our own best friend, we gotta look out for. Number one, we have to pump ourselves up and not tear ourselves down. And today's saying is yes and yes and as opposed to just ending a sentence. So let's share an example. It could be no and as well, I want to go there first, but there's. We often get so caught up in no, I can't do that, or yes, I will.
But I have stipulations. It can be both ways. It doesn't have to be so concrete and so black and white. And by throwing that and on the end of your sentence, it leaves it open for possibility. So something for myself is, I am a mom. And for a long time, I have. I had mom guilt around working, and I'm still working through it, but I've gotten better because of this saying. Saying I can be a mom and a business owner and a good wife and a good friend, as opposed to just being one or the other, because society has told me that I should be one or the other.
I love that example. Because you went into business owning as an entrepreneur, you can have a lot of things thrown at you. You're juggling a lot of responsibilities. And somebody puts a tight deadline on something, you get to express how you need that deadline to be flexible. Yes, I can do that. And here are some stipulations around how I need that to look based on where I am right now. A lot of the times we feel like we're just shut down in what other people are expecting of us because they put those expectations on us and we forget that we can use our own voice to come to a place that's a win win for both parties.
Well, and in a couple of videos ago, we talked about how clarity is kindness. So if someone is putting an expectation on you and it's making you feel a different way, that is an indicator to you to then make a request. Yes, I can do that. And I need a couple more days because right now my plate is full. I love that. So where can you implement the, and where can you implement putting a comma, where, generally speaking, you've always put a period. Where can you give yourself a little bit more grace and a little bit more kindness simply by using that one word?
Yes and no and wherever you want to add that. And it's really, really powerful to do so. So until next time, you guys. Bye.
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