Why We Say Yes

• We agree to many requests not because we want to do them, but because we don't want to be seen as rude, arrogant, or unhelpful.
• Often, you have to consider saying no to someone you will interact with again in the future.

If you want to be more effective, if you want to “get more done,” or even if you just want some breathing room in your life, you need to say no more often.

Again, every request has a cost . By sayi...

We often spend our days doing everything but that difficult thing we're dreading to do.

This happens because we're trying to protect ourselves from uncertainty. We don’t want to feel like we don’t know what we’re doing, to look stupid or to to feel overwhelmed.