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There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!
~~ Jack Canfield ~~

We all frequently experience situations where we don’t really want to say yes but willy nilly say yes because we think that if we say no the other person’s feelings will be hurt or he/she may feel offended etc. Many a times we later regret having said yes to such proposals.

So to achieve our goals, we need to keep our goals in focus and learn how to say no to other peoples proposals if we feel that those pursuits are not conducive to the attainment of our goals. May be we need to learn to tactfully say no without feeling guilty or without hurting others feelings. Sure it can be very difficult to say no to some people but we have to keep in mind that we can’t sacrifice our pursuits, desires and goals just to appease somebody else.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five “no’s” before you get a “yes.”
~~ Jack Canfield ~~

I can relate to that; I myself have done that many a times. I would say not just some people but lots of people give up after just one or two half-hearted attempts. But the key to succeed at anything is to be persistent and, if necessary, to refine or modify your approach and go at it again.

If we study the lives of successful people, we find that most if not all of them, initially failed at least once and some of them failed several times, before becoming a success. And one common factor they all share is that they had a goal or a vision they believed in and they persistently kept going at it in spite of the initial setbacks.