
Derek Sivers on Saying No, Doing What Scares Us and Living for the Future
Elevate with Robert Glazer
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Are You Saying No to Too Many Things?
The idea is to say no to almost everything so that you leave space in your life. I've used this, we started using it as a hiring test. Most of us say a lukewarm yes to too many things. We're just too busy. And so when something great does come up you don't have the time to give it the hell yet attention it deserves. So imagine an alternate version of yourself where you actually had like hours a day of spare time and your schedule is almost empty. Then when the occasional big deal comes along you say okay yeah this is worth throwing myself into.
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