Saying "No!" for growth . . .
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What is the secret to growth?
Saying "No" is truly the foundation for any kind of growth. It's easy to say yes – but it's likely you are saying yes to things that don't matter to you.When you learn to manage your time for things you care about, you grow in the areas you want to too. So before you say "yes" next time, ask yourself:
Over the next few weeks,? be very mindful about where you are spending your energy and it will be an eye-opening experience.
Take account of what is regenerative vs. draining.
How has saying no benefitted you?
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10 个月Saying "no" can reserve time, free up time, and recapture time that was committed with earlier, incomplete information. Here's an exasperating fact for compulsive planners: The best time to make a decision is at the latest *practical* time. It's not a philosophy. It's based on a practical fact: that's when you have the most information. Time spent on over-detailed planning is lost for all other purposes. It can also create over-investment in expectations that are always going to be incomplete--and more incomplete the farther into the future the expectations reach. Back to the value of "no:" Optimum planning (versus over-planning) allows you to use info at decision time that is more current than what you had when you were assembling your long forecast. For that to work, you need to cordially and constructively resist colleagues who want you to work out more details so they can follow a fixed recipe and make fewer judgments on their own. Never let your basket of "no" get empty. If you do, you can only be sure of one thing--you have lost control of your situation!