Upgrading your No
- Over time, as you continue to improve and succeed, your strategy to approach taking up tasks needs to change.
- You will need to say no to distractions plus opportunities that were previously good uses of time, so you can make space for great uses of time.
- You will increasingly learn to only say yes when it really makes sense.
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