MBA934 How to Start Saying NO. Practical Strategies

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, you just have to say no. While entrepreneurs are driven to be positive, affirmative, and happy to take on a challenge, limits are our friends! And while fostering good relationships means helping people when you can, overextending yourself can lead to the worst reputation killer of all: failure to deliver. So how can we turn people down without turning them off? How can we say “no” in a way that maintains our reputation?

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 in B. A show!
0:09.0	Straight to the good stuff with our daily 10 minute
0:14.9	business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher
0:19.3	Omar is in home. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online
0:25.8	over at 100 MBA.net.
0:29.4	In today's episode you will learn how to start saying no. I want to share with you some
0:34.4	practical strategies to start saying no. As entrepreneurs, as business
0:39.7	builders, we tend to be go-getters. We like to say yes to every opportunity.
0:44.0	Unfortunately that can land us in a lot of trouble because the problem is when you say yes to
0:48.1	everything you spread yourself way too thin and you're not able to focus on the right
0:51.8	things.
0:53.0	Plus you get stressed out and sometimes you end up not doing the things you committed to,
0:58.0	which is a huge, huge mistake.
1:00.0	So in today's episode, I'm going to give you some strategies,
1:02.0	the strategies I use myself to say no to things that I just can't do so I can be able to do the right things.
1:08.0	Some of these are really non-confrontational and in fact will build rapport with with those just saying no do.
1:13.0	If you have a problem with overwhelmed and just saying yes to every single thing this
1:17.8	episode is going to be a lifesaver. So let's get into it. Let's get down to
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