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James Altucher ‘s universal advice to anyone is to choose yourself , but to do that, you first have to stop choosing others and letting them choose you.
That, naturally, includes saying no. A lot. Steve Jobs was pretty good at it . The thing is, most of us are pretty bad at it. I’ve said yes to so many things I knew the moment I heard the question, that the real answer was no, that I’ve lost count.
It’s something all of us need to get better at, which makes this book probably one of the most important ones we’ll ever come across.
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Our ancestors kept chasing food, better shelter, and human contact. The reason was that all of these things used to be scarce resources.
But none of them are any more.
So trying one more new fast food restaurant, moving to a new house with one more room or finally getting that 1,000...
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"When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy."
-James Altucher
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The Power Of No is an encompassing instruction manual for you to harness the power of this little word to get healthy, rid yourself of bad relationships, embrace abundance and ultimately say yes to yourself.
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Ready to say no (you have to say yes this time)? Yes! Let’s do it!
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We all know ’em.
The people that every time we talk to, we walk away from and feel a little worse than before.
In an ideal world, we’d just get rid of them entirely, but often that’s not possible.
However, you can reduce the time you spend with them.
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This year started out rough for me. At 52 years old, my uncle died in his sleep.
Stopping to do things we don’t like was one of the biggest lessons his death taught me (read more about it in that day’s summary).
Ja...
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The Power Of No one of the most important lessons I learned in 2015. It started with saying no to bad clients, continued with saying no to family members, trips, events, and even my own ideas, so I could focus. I...
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When you recognize that nothing in today’s world is really scarce, you can go beyond the optimism of seeing the glass as half full and realize that there’s plenty of water, you’re not going to die of thirst and that you ha...
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The 14 year old who keeps wondering what he should do his homework for, the 21 year old college student, who feels forced to get a degree just because her parents expect it, and anyone who’s currently in a job they don’t really like.
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