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Learn to say “NO”

Targeted audience: Students

This is hard and tricky part. But learn to say NO when it is required to say NO. Let’s consider a situation, where you and your friend were assigned homework and its due in next 2 days. Assume that you just started working on that assignment as its still 2 days before the due date. But your friend completes that assignment, comes to you and asks for a movie. 

Now what will you do? Will you accept his invitation for movie or will you complete your assignment? 

It’s a tough situation to take a call for two reasons – 

1. You also want to watch that movie
2. And he is your friend and you don’t want to disappoint him by saying NO.

In such situations, you need to apply the rule of laser beam – staying focused! You need to first analyze your work load, analyze its priority, and analyze your expertise level to complete that work load. Based on these parameters, you should take the decision whether to accept friend’s proposal or stick to your assignment completion plan. Your friend, who is inviting you for a movie, can complete that assignment in 1 day. But it is not necessary that you can also complete the same assignment in 1 day. Learn to say “NO” if you have some priority work to complete before you accept any invitation.

Stay focused like a laser beam.

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