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Need to Regain Your Sanity? Learn to Say No.

Don't feel like you have to take every opportunity that comes your way. But choose wisely.
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Mary* was doing well as VP of business development at a San Francisco company. She’d been hired to create goodwill within the community, and she was a perfect fit. But her work had started suffering. Her CEO had asked her to take on a new project in Brazil, which would require her to spend at least a third of her time there. Her instinct was an honor. But realistically, she couldn’t be in South America and do what she’d been hired to do in San Francisco, too.

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