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Here’s a good exercise for that.

  1. Make a list of all the people you see at least 5 times a week.
  2. Rate how the encounters with these people make you feel, 1 is the worst, 10 is the best.

With the results you instantly know who makes you feel good and who’s rather poisonous.

Start spending more time with all people rated 8 and above, and less with everyone else, especially those lower than 5.

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Lesson 3: Say no to scarcity to go beyond “glas half full”.

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 - Book Summary

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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  1. Rate your regulars to say no to the wrong people.
  2. Stop doing things you don’t like, and everyone will be better off.
  3. Say no to scarcity to go beyond “glas half full”.

Ready to say no (you have to say yes this time)? Yes! Let’s do it!

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Lesson 1: Rate your regulars to say no to the wrong people.

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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You are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with. And while you can’t CHANGE the people around you, you can change THE PEOPLE around you.

Step by step.

Eventually, you’ll only be left with an inner circle that helps you thrive.

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Lesson 2: Stop doing things you don’t like

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 problem with saying yes to work you don’t want to do is that you’ll not only start disliking the work, but also the person who asked you to do it in the first place .

Even worse, the people who give you the work will feel bad too, because they’ll see that you don’t rea...

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One way you can do better at this is to just shift your focus to the abundance all around you .

Yes, your neighbor’s loud parties might be annoying (knows I speak from experience), but don’t focus on that, instead use this chance to see how amazing it is that we can have a...

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The Power Of No - Book Review

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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Have you ever had a friend help you move while they actually had to study for exams?

You probably felt bad for “making them help you”, so it was a lose-lose situation.

So instead of conforming to other people’s expectations, form your own and

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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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Who would I recommend The Power Of No s to?

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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Book Overview

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, incl...

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