Saying No To New Demands, And Saying Yes To Progress

Time isn't a limitless resource. It's hard enough trying to find time for everything that you really have to do, even before you look at squeezing in some things that you would like to do around the sides - and it becomes a lot harder if you're expected to find gaps in your schedule for the demands and requests and hopes and could-you-pleases and if-you-have-a-moments that others may send your way. In business as in life as a whole, you need to keep these extras under control. Of course, there's never anything wrong with helping someone else out - but there must be limits, and it's a good idea to start drawing that line at the point at which you or your business will start genuinely to suffer from the overstretching of your valuable time.

The full article appears here:
http://www.microsofttraining.net/article-854-saying-no-new-demands-and-saying-yes-progress.html

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