I’ve been conditioned to say yes all my life. One of my last jobs was very deep in customer service, where I was trained to never say no unless there was no other option available to offer. This is a good customer service strategy, but it shouldn’t transfer over to other aspects of my life.

I’ve been finding myself in situations I didn’t ever want to be in lately, and these situations could all have been avoided if I would have said no. I could have saved myself a lot of time and energy by saying no. I could have saved myself from being walked on quite a bit if I had only said no a few more times.

So this goal is going to be about making better choices, which involves saying no.