Melissa Dlugolecki turned down a lucrative contract because it felt energetically misaligned. She now weighs the hidden costs of saying yes: time, energy, and what else she could do instead. Most people chase short-term money and dopamine hits without asking what the real price is.
I turned down a contract yesterday and it would've been very profitable. It would've been very lucrative. And I, I was on it and one, energetically it didn't feel good for me. Yeah. But former versions of me would've just seen the number. Yep. And too much, too often people chase that immediate revenue.
Those numbers mean nothing. Like, or the immediate oxytocin or the immediate.
Yeah.
Like they play the short game.
Now I don't look at what do I get from that? Now I look at like, What would it cost me to say yes to that? That time, that energy, that's going to take away from something else. There's always an exchange. Yeah.
