{"id":9318,"date":"2016-06-15T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2016-06-15T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T21:53:12","slug":"not-agreeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2016\/06\/15\/not-agreeable\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Being Agreeable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NotAgeeable.png\" alt=\"NotAgeeable\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NotAgeeable.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/NotAgeeable-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We learn to articulate our personal power by saying no. <\/p>\n<p>Feeling my desire to be agreeable, and my fear of rejection, I say no anyway. I learn to be more me.<\/p>\n<p>There is wonder in the myriad of consequences created by responding negatively to requests. There is magic in how life moves forward, without interruption. &#8220;No&#8221; proves to be less important than we think it is.<\/p>\n<p>Our agreeableness is not that valuable. Assertive and at ease, when I can say no with freedom, I can say yes with utmost certainty, sincerity, and enthusiasm. This is the space I desire to be.<\/p>\n<p>Yes almost always has a cost. I can feel good paying it when I know my reasons are rooted in what I value and appreciate. I can no longer be agreeable for agreeable&#8217;s sake. The price is one I&#8217;m no longer willing to pay.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/martinjhoward2\/8252402562\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Howard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learn to articulate our personal power by saying no. Feeling my desire to be agreeable, and my fear of rejection, I say no anyway. I learn to be more me. There is wonder in the myriad of consequences created by responding negatively to requests. There is magic in how life moves forward, without interruption. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[283,549,239,364,237,550,548,232],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-appreciation","tag-assertiveness","tag-communication","tag-freedom","tag-rejection","tag-saying-no","tag-sincerity","tag-value"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}