{"id":4259,"date":"2023-12-12T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frank-goes-walkabout.com\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:18:52","slug":"yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frank-goes-walkabout.com\/en\/yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes or No"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The answer is either Yes or No<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;ve read a few of my stories, you may have noticed that I know how not to do things. I know exactly what it feels like to fail. I&#8217;ve taken almost every dead-end road life has offered me, and I&#8217;ve messed up both in my job and relationships more than enough times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But you know what&#8217;s great about it? Slowly but surely, I&#8217;ve been through it all, and there&#8217;s not much left that can knock me down. And if it&#8217;s true that experience makes you rich, then I&#8217;m a millionaire. In this post, I share an important realization with you, based on years of failures, dead-ends, and repeatedly falling flat on my face. It&#8217;s foolproof, 100 percent true, tested and verified countless times:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you&#8217;re faced with a decision, and your &#8220;Yes&#8221; to a choice you make isn&#8217;t a 100 percent &#8220;Yes&#8221;, then it&#8217;s a NO!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why is that?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The compromises I&#8217;ve made with myself in the past have always come back to haunt me sooner or later: &#8220;The job is alright? I&#8217;ll do it. It&#8217;s fine.&#8221; But in the end, I gave much more than it brought to me and others. Another example: &#8220;This woman suits me well!&#8221; Just well? That&#8217;s a No!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because, firstly, I will unconsciously try to change her, and secondly, I won&#8217;t put in the effort for our shared life that I would with 100 percent. Admittedly, the experiences with her are beautiful. Some moments can be fantastic, and the sky is full of flowers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But in the end, we all grow older, and after 80 or 90 years, this life is over. Do I really want to have entered into all these compromises with which I was only half happy and never really lived life to the fullest? Admittedly, there are situations where you have to make 70 or 80 percent decisions, especially professionally. But I can align each of these <a href=\"https:\/\/frank-goes-walkabout.com\/veraendern-fuer-ein-glueckliches-leben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decisions with my 100 percent<\/a> and make them a part of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can&#8217;t go 100 percent? Yes, you can. Here are two examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/markus-mensch.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Markus Mensch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewmockridge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Mockridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your take on this? Write it in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is either Yes or No If you&#8217;ve read a few of my stories, you may have noticed that I know how not to do things. I know exactly what it feels like to fail. 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