This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to letting the opinions of others control your life. It is often those who are most insecure that fall prey to the opinions of others. Today – say ‘no’ to that mindset.

Stephen Covey said, “It’s not what others think, it’s what you think about yourself that counts. You have to do exactly what’s best for you and your life, not what’s best for everyone else.”

How many times have you changed direction in your decision because you let someone else’s opinion weigh more than your own. Life isn’t a debate class!

Donatella Versace said, “It’s no good being too easily swayed by people’s opinions. You have to believe in yourself.”

I say, let yourself be authentically you – even if the opinion of someone else matters to you – you don’t always have to let it control your life.

Move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to letting the opinions of others control you.

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to letting others dictate our lives. Do you allow others to put words in your mouth or assume that they know how you think, feel and are going to respond? Do you let others dictate your level of happiness, success and worth?

Does society determine how you view the world and yourself?

Clearly, there are laws, rules, social norms and culture that dictate certain aspects of our lives in business and at home – but you can live your life in a way that doesn’t permit someone from dictating how you think, feel and behave.

You can’t be all things to all people, so say no to trying to please everyone. Take a stand and forge your own path. People will respect you for it. Ground yourself in your own positive path, and you’ll find that there are more people that are just like you when you stop trying to please people who want to dictate what your life should be.

Move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to letting others dictate what your life is going to be.

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to fear. What do you fear the most? Fear of rejection? Fear of success? Poverty, homelessness, failure? Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. In his inaugural address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

The Bible offers a beautiful message on fear, found in Luke chapter 12, verses 22 through 24: “…Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!”

How do you overcome and say no to fear? Embrace it. Challenge it. Seek that which you fear most and you will overcome it!

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”  - Jack Canfield

Move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to fear!

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to busy-ness. Ever feel like you're overwhelmingly busy? Of course you have. We all do. But chances are, you might not be as busy as you think—and knowing this simple fact can reduce a lot of stress. I found this blog on “Life Hacker” , and it really made an impact on some of my clients. We live in a cult of busy. And
chances are, you're not actually as busy as you think.

I’m not going to tell you to meditate, or take more vacations, or breathe, or walk in nature, or do anything that will invariably feel like just another item on the to- do list. The answer to feeling oppressively busy, is to stop telling yourself that you're oppressively busy, because the truth is that we are all much less busy than we think we are.

Try  logging your time every day for a week, or a month and see what kind of holes appear. That will help you understand that you aren’t really busy all the time and you can stop complaining that you are just too busy! Drop the cult of busy-ness and move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to it!

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to being a slave to work! I was enjoying a nice Friday evening with a friend and she shared with me that she had been invited to two separate business events recently, and usually would attend them because she believed that her career and business success required her to go. She admitted that business had improved
with all of her hard work and efforts and she realized that not only did she need an evening off – she had earned it.

I couldn’t help but congratulate her on celebrating her success by saying ‘no’ to being a slave to her work.

You have a right to say no to being a slave to your work. In our wired world, trends have shown that people work anywhere, anytime. Emails are answered in the middle of the night, work is done on days off or even on vacation!

You do not need to be constantly working!

Move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to being a slave to your work!

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth. The Power of No is helping improve lives! Today, let’s say “no” to being a victim! It’s time for you to break free from that victim mentality!

American Author John W. Gardner wrote, “Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.”

I often see a lot of ‘victimization’ when working with clients. The need to blame others for our lives not working; feeling as though we have no choice about the direction our life has taken; allowing someone else to bully us into feeling as though we are powerless.

It’s time for you to just say NO to being a so-called victim. Stop allowing other people or circumstances have your power. Nobody is that powerful!

Say no to that victim mentality by:
- Giving yourself a break
- Practicing Gratitude
- Accepting what “is”
- Taking responsibility for your own life

Move yourself into a season of positive growth by just saying no to being a victim!

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty seconds on Wisdom, Success and Personal Growth. We’ve spent the last 30 days considering and acting on new habits that help us grow, both professionally and personally. Here is a recap:

• Treat others the way you want to be treated
• Make a difference
• Forgive and Forget
• Find the good in people
• Save for a Rainy Day
• Live without regrets
• Listen to your conscience
• Keep your promises
• Pay good deeds forward
• Enjoy every moment
• Rely on yourself first
• Find balance
• Be a good role model
• Learn from your mistakes
• Be a good friend
• Keep in touch
• Break out of your comfort zone
• Stop worrying
• Value people over things
• Share a compliment
• Accept responsibility
• Put yourself in their shoes
• Listen, just listen
• Trust and share with others
• Ask for help
• Challenge yourself
• Tell the truth
• Offer to help
• Make someone smile
• Make memories

One, two, three or all of these new habits will change your life!

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” ~Benjamin Mays

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty seconds on Wisdom, Success and Personal Growth. We’re focusing on growth with 30 Days of New Habits.

What kind of memories are you making today? If all we have is today, then memories are the foundation of what we are building upon. It isn’t easy to erase bad memories, but we can certainly make a habit to create new and happy memories, starting today.

How can you go about creating a happy memory? Take a photo with a friend, that’s pretty easy to do these days. Have a conversation about nothing but a good time you had. Write yourself a note about a happy time. Or do something silly and spontaneous like taking the day off and heading to the happiest place on Earth. Remember what Walt Disney said, “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Pursue your dreams and while you’re at it, make a habit of creating memories!

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty seconds on Wisdom, Success and Personal Growth. We’re focusing on growth with 30 Days of New Habits.

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

They say that the truth sets you free, and that is really… well, the truth! When you tell the truth, you give yourself freedom and permission to be authentic, real, genuine, and yes, sometimes vulnerable. But, if it is just, it won’t be damaged.

Barbara De Angelis wrote, “Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.” 
Make a habit to tell the truth today.

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This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty seconds on Wisdom, Success and Personal Growth. We’re focusing on growth with 30 Days of New Habits.

I’m always encouraging my clients, readers and now listeners to “break out of your comfort zone!” It is all too easy to put ourselves in a box; or a category and believe that we are “stuck” there. I’m living proof that that is simply not true! Make a habit of breaking out of your comfort zone every day. Small steps are key. Sure, you can take a big leap too, those are really scary. Just keep all of your efforts in perspective. If you want weight loss or more control over your health, break that comfort zone and just buy a pair of sneakers and take a walk around the block. Just begin. If you want to jump out of an airplane, well – that’s a different story, there is no small steps to take to reach that leap of faith, but you can go sign up for the opportunity! Don’t say, “I wish I could do that, or I want to do that someday”. What’s stopping you from breaking out of your comfort zone right now? Don’t hope something will happen someday. Make a habit of making it happen every day! And remember, "Hope sees the invisible, feeds the intangible and achieves the impossible.” ~ Author Unknown

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