Episode 299: Save Your Business from the YES Monster: Learn How to Say NO Effectively (FS299)
The Fizzle Show
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4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
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When should we say no to opportunities? How do we balance saying yes and no to these to our advantage? What are the tips and tricks for making the right choices in business?
We all have constant chances to say yes and no to things, whether in our business or personal lives. Here at Fizzle, we have noticed the huge impact that making the right choice in these situations can have on your trajectory, specifically your ability to say no.
In this episode, we break down the particulars of this somewhat challenging question. We really try to get through when it might be a good time to refuse or turn down a request or offer. We look at it from the perspective of different types of entrepreneurs and help you to build a model that suits you.
We also talk about tips and tricks, a decision making frameworks and the evolution of your business and psychology. There are a number of factors that have to be constantly juggled and reassessed and we are here to help you with work all of that out!
For all this and more, join for another great episode!
Key Points From This Episode:
• The task of learning to say no gracefully. [0:04:04.3]
• Different entrepreneurial responses to business opportunities. [0:06:39.6]
• The effect of saying yes and the dilution of follow through. [0:10:17.2]
• Feeder fish mentality and valuing your own time. [0:16:35.2]
• Corbett and Chase’s early partnership in this context. [0:21:41.7]
• The balancing of your limited time and saying no to your own ideas. [0:26:01.4]
• What to say yes to, what to say no to. [0:31:25.8]
• Frameworks, matrices and strategies for making decisions. [0:34:58.3]
• Switching your default answer to no and maintaining empty space. [0:39:40.2]
• Leaving gaps for reflection and intellectual refreshment. [0:44:35.6]
• Tips and tricks for saying no effectively and gracefully. [0:49:45.3]
• Don’t be a donkey! [1:01:52.2]
• And much more!
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
• Chase's Special LA Event - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-revenant-process-jan-31st-feb-3rd-2019-tickets-52378590775
• Fizzle — https://fizzle.co/
• Fizzle Try 5 — http://fizzle.co/try5
• Rover — https://www.rover.com/fizzle
• Elizabeth Gilbert — https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/
• Courage and Clarity — https://www.courageandclarity.com/
• Steven Covey — https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html
• Ram Dass — https://www.ramdass.org/
• Mark Twain — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain
• Seth Godin — https://www.sethgodin.com/
• Aiden Fishbein — https://www.linkedin.com/in/aiden-fishbein-05156830
• Corbett Barr on Twitter — https://twitter.com/CorbettBarr
• Chase Reeves on Twitter — https://twitter.com/chase_reeves
• Fizzle Sparkline — https://fizzle.co/sparkline
• Fizzle Goals Course — https://fizzle.co/courses/goals
• Fizzle Journaling Course — https://fizzle.co/courses/journal
• Fizzle Essentials of Web Design Course — https://fizzle.co/library/essentials-of-website-design-for-business-builders
• Fizzle Website Tune Up Curse — https://fizzle.co/courses/tuneup
• Fizzle Roadmap — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/small-business-roadmap-1-clarity
• Start A Blog That Matters Course — https://fizzle.co/start-a-blog-that-matters
• Fizzle 80/20 Copywriting Guide — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/writing-copy-for-web
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• Fizzle Craft + Commerce — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/craft-commerce
• Fizzle Project Management for Entrepreneurs — https://fizzle.co/sparkline/project-management-for-entrepreneurs
• Fizzle Hosting — https://fizzle.co/hosting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hi, how's it going? Welcome to the fizzle show. What's up everybody? It is the fizzle show. |
| 0:12.1 | You want to fizzle, you want to fizzle, you want to get frizzled. You know what the kids are getting into. |
| 0:17.7 | You don't know what they're putting in their cups when they go to their house parties, but that's what we're doing here. We're putting this into your ear holes through your, |
| 0:24.5 | what are you listening to on Apple Earpods? Are I in your car right now? Where are we going? Where are you |
| 0:29.3 | taking us? We're excited to be on the journey with you. I've got myself, Aiden, and Corbett here on the line. And today we're going to talk about something that is important, like every week, to entrepreneurs, |
| 0:41.5 | to what I call indie entrepreneurs or independent entrepreneurs, people who are earning a living |
| 0:45.9 | doing something that they care about, or who are working towards it. |
| 0:49.3 | There's something amazing. |
| 0:50.9 | There's something magical about all the opportunities, all the possibilities that there |
| 0:56.2 | are today for creating your own little cottage business, your own little cottage industry even, |
| 1:03.1 | right? But in order to do that, you've got to know how to use the tools. And you've got to know |
| 1:08.3 | how the markets work. You've got to know how people work. You've got to |
| 1:11.7 | watch how you work and then like you not burn out too, right? There's so many elements to this, |
| 1:18.5 | but it's not impossible. It's just, you know, one of those things that you got to work pretty |
| 1:23.7 | hard to manage. Do you know what I'm saying? Does that make sense? We call it the fizzle show because most business ideas, most projects end up fizzling out, right? Not that, no bad, |
| 1:34.2 | you know, not that they don't teach you something. A lot of business ideas that I had that fizzled |
| 1:39.2 | out, thank God if they would have gotten successful. I would have been hating my life in a lot of ways, like about five months after it got successful. |
| 1:46.6 | I'd be like, why am I doing this? I want to do something else. But now I'm trapped in these golden handcuffs, right? |
| 1:52.3 | But that fizzling out is real. It's a real thing. And so what we exist for is to help people, help people keep the electricity going. |
| 2:02.6 | Help people get the, keep the buzz going a little bit. |
| 2:06.0 | Keep it going. |
| 2:06.9 | Keep the energy up. |
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