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Chris, how is your resolution going to say no to more things in January?

Well, I needed to make that resolution in October.

You're going to reap the benefits in February.

I have said no to a lot of stuff already in January,

but it's not going to really pay off until March or even early summer. It is a thing of which we need a constant reminder. That's true.

In today's daily dose, we are returning to our episode on the Power of No with Dr Sunita

Sarr from Cornell University. Sunita had a fantastic

point on how we can link saying no to our values and how we figure out what those values really

are. This ep transform my life. I think it's important to both have your true yes and your true no. I mean, really, they're two sides of the same coin. What really matters is you're going in with something that's aligned with your values, whether you say yes or no, depends on the situation. So it's really behaving in a way that reflects who you think you are. Can I understand this then?

I don't know enough about myself, I think, to go, what are my values?

So how do those listeners out there who don't really know their values?

Like how do we begin to figure this out?

It's a great question and it's the place to start, right?

Give me some values.

Yes.

So I think...

Can you write out my values for me?

Can you tell me what my values are?

We need to understand what we mean by values.

They often end up as single powerful words.

So I have my executive students do a value exercise every year, and I ask them to write down their

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