The Best Yes
by Lysa TerKeurst
A Christian author's book on overcommitment: why saying yes to everything is a way of avoiding the harder yes to what matters. TerKeurst writes from faith and from her own exhaustion, with practical questions for evaluating requests. Readers outside her faith will find the decision tools useful and the framing frequent.
Read it if…
you say yes too fast and want a faith-rooted way to think about priorities.
Skip it if…
religious language is not for you; it runs throughout.
Three things you will actually use
- Treat every yes as a trade.
- Decide values in advance so requests meet a filter.
- Say a small no now to avoid a large resentment later.
Do this first
Before the next request, wait a full day and ask whether this yes costs a better one.
Our verdict
Gentle and devotional; practical if you share the framework.
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