say no to people

I’m marking this as done because it has been awhile since I had to say no to anybody. I am not overburdened with responsibilities right now and I hope to not be again in the future. I believe that if I was starting to feel weighed down again I would have the strength to say no.

I belong to a organization that I have been wanting to quit for a long time, but have not had the guts to tell them “no.” For the last five years I have been doing stuff that I didn’t have time for just to try to make them accept me and all the time I didn’t really want to belong. I think it was mostly to make my husband happy. This organization is a sub-organization of a group that he belongs to. Anyway, my husband got into a disagreeent with the group that I was in and they decided not to elect me to an office this year and I found my easy way out without having to actually tell anyone “no.” My husband doesn’t even want me to go back to resign. He said he would handle it for me since they did this out of spite. At least now I don’t have to do something I don’t want to do anymore. I am going to say this counts as a “no” because I have wrote them a professional letter telling them how I have not felt welcome and all of the stuff I think that they are doing wrong.

Surprisingly I have not been asked to do anything new lately. I haven’t been able to say no to anyone for this reason. I have actually been doing more stuff for me recently.

I always agree to do things that I just don’t have the time or energy for. I really need to start telling people “no.”