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The Year of No.

January 12, 2014 by Alicia Young

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[HAPPY NEW YEAR! I allow myself one re-post each year, around now. I offer it as a reminder to us all – myself included – of the need to become/stay comfortable with saying no when people or obligations tip the scale and become toxic. Please consider. Also, while I have you, we’ve just switched to the domain savvylife.net, and doing so meant we lost social media data on the posts. Please know how much we appreciate the tweets, “likes” and “shares”. – Thanks, Alicia.] Could you organize the group gift? Could you babysit this weekend? Could you lend me some… [Read More]

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Posted in Career, Communication, Community, Identity, LIfe, Mind, Relationships, Social Life, Spirit Tags: aggression, assertion, balance, friendships, loaning money, No, Relationships, saying no, self esteem, self worth.

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