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The Answer Is No: A Short Story
■“No” allows the real issues to be brought forth; ■“No” protects people from making—and lets them correct—ineffective decisions; ■“No” slows things down so that people can freely embrace their decisions and the agreements they enter into; ■“No” helps people feel safe, secure, emotionally comfortable, and in control of their decisions; ■“No” moves e
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But even if you know what you want, and you ask for what you want, and it seems to be heard, it’s often hard to hear the answer to your request, which might be not Yes but rather No. Or Maybe. Or Not that, but this instead. And on the other side of the conversation, it can be hard to understand that when someone makes a request, when she tells you
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