"It’s a self-help cliché that most of us need to get better at learning to say no. But as the writer [[Elizabeth Gilbert]] points out, i**t’s all too easy to assume that this merely entails finding the courage to decline various tedious things you never wanted to do in the first place**. "In fact, she explains, “it’s much harder than that. **You need to learn how to start saying no to things you do want to do, with the recognition that you have only one life**.”" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[self-control]], [[discipline]], [[attention]], [[focus]], [[priorities]], [[work-life-balance]], [[character]], [[personal-values]], [[counter-intuitive-thinking]], **Source** --