<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that I’m rubbish at saying no.</p>
<p>There I was, sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when a colleague telephoned and asked me to get involved in a new project she wants to get off the ground and I found myself getting all caught up in her enthusiasm and thinking “Sure, why the heck not?” and before the call had ended, I found myself agreeing to get involved, without giving any thought whatsoever to the implications.</p>
<p>Probably not my smartest move so far this week. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/10/we-need-to-learn-to-say-no/" title="Permanent Link: We Need to Learn to Say No" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2411,"date":"2014-10-17T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:13:38","slug":"we-need-to-learn-to-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/10\/we-need-to-learn-to-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Learn to Say No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that I\u2019m rubbish at saying no.<\/p>\n<p>There I was, sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when a colleague telephoned and asked me to get involved in a new project she wants to get off the ground and I found myself getting all caught up in her enthusiasm and thinking \u201cSure, why the heck not?\u201d and before the call had ended, I found myself agreeing to get involved, without giving any thought whatsoever to the implications.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not my smartest move so far this week. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/10\/we-need-to-learn-to-say-no\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: We Need to Learn to Say No\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you want to be successful in life, and let go of overwhelm it\\&#039;s incredibly important that you learn to say no. 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