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How much do you value yourself? Do you value yourself enough to say “no” to those things and those situations that do not work for you? How seriously do people take you? Do they believe you when you say “no?” Or do they think they can grind you into submission? One of the critically important life skills to get through …
Everywhere I go and speak, people talk to me about their schedules. They tell me they’ve never been busier. They’re overwhelmed and out of balance. Part of the problem is caused by their inability to say “No.” When people ask them to do something, even things they don’t want to do or have time to do, they say “Yes.” They …
We’ve just come through two tough years of a pandemic. If that wasn’t difficult enough, almost every day the federal and state governments and various parts of the private sector gave us new or conflicting information on how we were supposed to behave. I just so happened to have offices in two different states that took totally opposite approaches to …
If you were asked to summarize your life in six words, what would you say? When a particular group of people was asked to do that, they came up with the following six-word memoirs. · Memorized all of my worry lines. · I was terrified. Did it anyway. · Sketchy past has people drawing conclusions. · Saw Jenny Craig. Chose …
