032: The Power of a Graceful "No" | FFFT

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🗓️ 22 July 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks Friday Food For Thought, Matt does a follow up to episode 029: The Difference Between a Clean No and a Dirty Yes. Many understand the importance of protecting their time and why we need to be more careful of the things we say yes to, but many of us do not know how to actually do it.

In this short episode, you will get the exact way you can decline a request, or turn down an opportunity, but do it in a way that preserves the relationship and honors that person or opportunity. This simple response will leave you feeling more confident to respond with the right words, in the right way.

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0:00.0	Episode 032, The Power of a Graceful Know.
0:08.0	Welcome to the Millionaire Mindcast,
0:10.9	where we broadcast weekly interviews with millionaire minds from across the globe
0:15.4	to empower you on your journey of unlocking a rich and fulfilling life.
0:20.3	It's time to unleash your millionaire
0:22.3	within. Now, here's your host, Maddie A. Welcome into Millionaire Mindcast,
0:28.7	this show where mindset and money meet. I am your host, Maddie A, and thanks for tuning in for
0:34.5	another week of thought-provoking conversation.
0:38.4	Today I want to do a quick follow-up to last week's episode of Friday Food for Thought,
0:43.8	episode 029, the difference between a clean no and a dirty yes.
0:48.2	I actually had a ton of comments and messages and text sent over to me regarding this topic. So it was interesting to see
0:56.7	how many of us related to having a schedule that can often get overcrowded by those dirty yeses,
1:04.4	those commitments to things that aren't necessarily in alignment with our goals or what we really
1:08.8	want to be doing. And one of the conversations that I got involved in was, well, that's great.
1:15.1	You can say no and you can be convicted about it, but I feel really uncomfortable when I get
1:21.8	offered up opportunities and I'm grateful for those, but I'm not necessarily excited about them.
1:28.2	I don't really want to partake in them.
1:30.1	How do I protect my time more and how do I respond in a way that doesn't hurt that person's
1:37.0	feelings or tarnish or damage that relationship?
1:40.6	And the great thing is I have a very simple response that anybody can use in a situation that arises that may need a graceful no or a graceful exit.
1:52.0	And the simple script is this. Someone offers you some kind of opportunity or request something from you at a particular time that you just don't want to give a yes to,
2:04.4	you can honor that conversation by saying, while it's not something I'd like to do,
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