17. If you can’t say “no” easily, you can’t be trusted.
You can’t be trusted if you can’t say no.
How to build trust:
1. Speak your truth, even if it’s scary.
2. Be with someone in their truth without needing to fix it.
3. Say no without fear of attack or abandonment.
4. Say no the way you give a gift.
Joe Hudsonx.comThere exists a myth that it’s hard to say no, whether to someone else or to your own ambition. The reality is that saying no isn’t so bad if you have hard evidence that it’s the only reasonable answer.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Know no
“No” is no to one thing. “Yes” is no to a lot of things.
“No” is no to one thing. “Yes” is no to a lot of things.