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Podcast: Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness
Episode: Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Why Explaining Yourself Backfires
Description: Do you know that it’s ok to say “no” and stop right there?
It’s perfectly ok to want to help when someone asks you to, evaluate the request, realize that it will take too much time or too much energy or too much whatever, and say “no.” You don’t need to give a reason for your answer.
Reasons don’t matter anyway, and feel like excuses to the other person. Even worse, if the other person really wants your help, they can use your reasons against you, defusing them one by one until you’re box...