007: The Surprising Way 'No' Can Really Mean Yes
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is all about the power of the word "no" and how to cut through the clutter in our daily to-do list. There's a lot of guilt associated with saying no to tasks so I'm going to be walking you through how to filter out the lowest priority tasks, what saying no really means for your happiness and easy ways can say no guilt-free.
What's In This Episode:
- How to filter out most of your lowest priority tasks.
- Why delegating will help you focus on your priorities.
- Why we have guilt about saying no to things and how to overcome it.
- Getting rid of the busy mindset and being more productive.
- The way saying No really means Yes, and vice versa.
- Good excuses and ways to say no.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. Join Tanya Dalton as she helps you discover your passions and priorities through the power of productivity. |
| 0:08.2 | Tanya has transformed her personal productivity mission into Inkwell Press, a seven-figure business that has already changed the lives of thousands of fiercely loyal fans. |
| 0:18.2 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply |
| 0:22.0 | register at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now, here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, |
| 0:28.8 | hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode |
| 0:36.1 | seven. Today, we are going to be talking about the power |
| 0:40.9 | of the word no and really cutting through a lot of the clutter in our daily to-do list and our daily |
| 0:48.2 | task list because most of us put way too many things on there. Our task list is so long each and every day, and there's no way we're going to be able to get |
| 0:59.0 | it all done and feel successful at the end of the day. |
| 1:02.5 | Or if we get it all done, we are exhausted, right? |
| 1:06.8 | So today we're going to be focusing on how to get rid of some of that extra clutter and |
| 1:10.6 | extra noise that you're having on your to-do list. |
| 1:14.4 | So last time in episode six, we talked about the importance of prioritizing your tasks. |
| 1:20.4 | So every day, sitting down and prioritizing the things that are on your to-do list for each and every day. |
| 1:26.7 | Because it's going to help add order to your day, |
| 1:29.9 | and it's really going to enable you to focus in on the areas of your day |
| 1:34.9 | and the tasks you want to do that are important to you, |
| 1:38.2 | and that help you move towards your end goals, |
| 1:41.0 | and ultimately towards your mission. |
| 1:43.6 | So we discussed a method of prioritizing that's a combination of the triage method and the Eisenhower |
| 1:50.4 | matrix. |
| 1:51.7 | We came up with a hybrid system to create three priority levels for yourself. |
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