The ‘Not Now’ Strategy for Chronic Over-Agreements
- "Not now, but ask me in [X time]." It redirects demands without shutting doors.
- TAKEAWAY: Delay ≠ denial. Control the clock, not the request.
1
6 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
"Saying ‘no’ isn’t a personality flaw—it’s a superpower. Master it, and watch your time, energy, and self-respect skyrocket."
“
Similar ideas to The ‘Not Now’ Strategy for Chronic Over-Agreements
Now and Not Now
Everyone's experience with ADHD is different but what the book ADHD 2.0 shares is how ADHD affects individuals with a warped sense of time.
Explaining that the passage of time feels different for people with ADHD. You might need to get ready for something in the future su...
Dealing with a chronic complainer: Validate, sympathize, deflect, redirect
- Validate: Now that you've shown them you're listening, you can deploy the ultimate weapons for shutting chronic complainers down.
- Next, it's time to sympathize. Try to make it as authentic as possible. Avoid all sarcasm as they will notice it, and...
Wish Not, Want Not - Day 199
- Remember that it's not only the desire for wealth and position that debates and subjugates us, but also the desire for peace, leisure, travel, and learning. It doesn't matter what the external thing is, the value we place on it subjugates us to another... where our heart is set, there our im...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates