Mel Abraham's 2019 cancer diagnosis taught him that every yes costs you a slice of your finite life. Now he only commits to things when he can give his full attention and the other person will do the same.
We've all been told that we have a limited time here. I didn't take it seriously until 2019 when they turned around and said, hey man, got bad news. Here's what I know. I hope that you have plenty of slices of life left in you. But people ask me, Mel, did the cancer change you? It's kind of a stupid question. Of course it did. I said, it makes it easier for me to say no to things. It makes it easier for me to say no to things. They say, what? I say, here's what I know. We've all been given a limited number of slices of life. May they be many. I don't know how many we've got. But here's what I do know about it. Is that every time I give a slice of life away, I will never get it back. Every time that I say yes to something, I will never get it back. And so the only way I'm going to say yes to something is if I know that I can give everything to it in that moment to make the moment matter as much as possible. And the only way that I do that transaction is if I know that the person on the other side Will do the same for me. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.
