“Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.” – Jack Canfield

Whether it’s in business or personal life saying “NO” is one of the most powerful words in the English language.   This is part of saying Yes to yourself.

Obviously there are times when you want to be able to say yes to other people too however more often than not I hear people saying Yes when they really need to be saying NO, sorry I can’t right now or “Let me think about that and I’ll get back to you.”

We say no to children because they need to learn about boundaries and what’s OK and what’s not, it’s no different with adults.  So next time you go to say Yes to someone else, stop and ask yourself if this is something that is really necessary or a ‘must’ or is it something you are thinking you are ‘supposed to’ or ‘should’ do.

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Hazel Palache is the CEO and Founder of Mind Mastery Coaching home of “The Say Yes to YOU” Coaching programs and Telephone Boot Camps. She is the author of the award winning best selling book “The Astonishing Power of You,” Simple Steps to Creating an Extra-ordinary Life and is known as The Entrepreneurs Business Accelerator coach. She brings nearly 30 years experience in the fields of personal development, psychology, spirituality and business development. Using the tools of NLP, hypnosis and her expertise in the law of attraction, she teaches entrepreneurs and solo-professionals how to overcome doubt and fear and create a hugely profitable business to take part on a bigger playing field. All this while having fun, feeling excited, motivated and inspired. Her greatest passion is to teach entrepreneurs how to overcome adversity so they live lives of brilliance fearlessly and achieve the prosperity, abundance and success they desire. For more information about Hazel’s services and programs and her free 6 lesson e-course, visit www.sayyestoyoucoaching.com