The YES Virus

hey everybody this is Gary vaynerchuk and I have the yes virus what is the yes virus and I think a ton of you have this at least the good peeps um is when you want to say yes to everything when you feel like you can do everything and when most of all you don't want to let people down or you just want to try to check off a lot of boxes or accomplish a lot of things you maybe you want to call it big eyes you know you feel like you can consume all that chocolate cake I very much for most of my career have had the yes virus and I want to make this video to kind of relieve people from their yes virus um because the problem with the yes virus and why I call it a virus is when you were trying to say yes to everything you end up doing nothing and recently in the last 6 months nine months um I've been trying to say no more often and it becomes so unnatural for me like you know saying no breaks my heart you know I have a lot of energy clearly and I feel like I can do a lot of things and it feels selfish to say no but what I'm realizing as I'm getting older as the gray hairs start coming in um I've been able to accomplish a lot more this last year by uh giving myself a little bit of a vaccine to the S virus by saying no more often first of all the big eye opener to me is how many people actually respect you saying no um instead of just deleting that email or or avoiding it coming up front and saying Hey listen I've got you know Vayner media to build we're up to 120 employees we're at 25 I would have never been able to get to this place in the last year if I kept saying yes to everything and every interview request and help every single person build their business while neglecting mine and as a giber and a somebody who gets much more uh satisfaction out of helping others than myself it's very hard to say no it it's actually not as fun to say no uh I don't like the selfish rewards that come along with saying no but if you're trying to accomplish something execute and I've got to tell you in a world of like everybody's starting a business and everybody's an entrepreneur now and everybody can raise money I've never been more attracted to execution little Bret Hart the excellent execution is what I'm looking for Bret Harts and to be a Bret Hart and to execute I've had to say a whole lot of NOS lately and it's been very rewarding I'm very thankful for the way people respect the no and so if you have the yes virus um I'm really not sure what the vaccine was I don't know what the turning point was for me in late summer last year um but if you're able to somehow break through maybe we can make tomorrow no day if you can just say no to two or three things tomorrow respectfully and see how that feels uh I think you'll be stunned on how much more you can accomplish and the things that you're trying to accomplish over the next 300 plus days