Prompts · Personal task management
Stop saying yes to everything
each request seemed small when you agreed to it, and now your own priorities haven't moved in months.
Built on
Greg McKeown · 2024
Supplies the test: if it isn't a clear yes, it's a no, and anything under 90 out of 100 counts as a zero. Plus the slow yes:
Stephen R. Covey · 2020
Supplies what the yeses crowd out: Quadrant II, the important but not urgent work. Schedule your priorities first; requests fit around them.
The prompt
My situation: [describe what you've agreed to recently, what it's displaced, and what kind of requests are hardest to refuse]
Use Essentialism by Greg McKeown (2024) and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (2020) to help.
Recall any details from the whole book that help, including names, numbers, scenes, or cases that are not the most famous chapter titles.
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