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DO NOT RELY ON YOUR PAST SELF TO CHOOSE FOR YOU NOW.
Too often, people are inclined to defer to their past-self rather than trust themselves in the present. They rationalize that since they once decided to keep something, they should keep keeping it. If they don’t, they’re surely undermining their own judgment, they figure. But you can’t merely rely on your past judgment, because the person who made those decisions is no longer you.

Since who you are is a constantly evolving entity, it is inevitable that what you deem important, meaningful, and appealing will shift over time.

Allow yourself to choose over and over again, and to choose different than ever before. This is freedom and the path to Simplicity.

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Saying “no” isn’t mean or rude or even inconsiderate, it’s essential. Still, most people find that actually saying “no” is epically scary and utterly confounding.

Stop hyperventilating about how to go about it and start embracing your ability to decline offers/questions/invitations/requests of all kinds like the no-ninja that you can and will be.

Just for you, here are 20 Assertive & Compassionate Alternatives To Saying Flat Out “No.”
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1. I’d prefer not to.

2. I’m unavailable.

3. No thank you.

4. I’m currently choosing to prioritize other things.

5. I had/have a different vision.

6. Unfortunately, I can’t say yes, because I fear if I took on another commitment, my ability to show up for all of my responsibilities might suffer.

7. I’m all set with that (a Live Simply favorite!)
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8. I’m going to pass.

9. This time I need to decline.

10. I don’t think I’m the right person for ______________________ right now.

11. That’s so ___________________ of you! I’m all set/unavailable/ satisfied with my current ________/not in need of anymore___________. Thank you anyway!
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12. I’ve made a promise to myself not to take on any more _______________________ until I ________________________________.

13. I’m unable to say yes, but have you considered ___________________________?
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14. I used to make time for things like this, but I now need to focus my attention on my true priority which is ____________________________.

15. I’m respectfully/politely/bravely/lovingly saying no to _____________________________. Here is what I am able to offer: __________________________.

16. I know it’s not what you intended, but saying yes to you would distract me from what I really need to attend to currently.

17. Please don’t feel the need to _________________ on my account.

18. I’m intrigued/curious/open, but/and I need more information before I’m able to say yes.

19. As much as I want to say yes, I’m working on saying no to more things in order to __________________.

20. I want to say yes, but I need to say no.

What’s your favorite way to say no?

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Ever fall in love with a certain style of t-shirt, and then buy twelve more exactly like it? Or decide to take up cooking, buy 1 cookbook, and then the next day buy 3 more, and then 2 weeks later, 5 more? Or, decide to start drinking tea regularly, and then buy enough to fill a small grocery aisle, all within a month?

Buying in bulk (household items you’re guaranteed to need excluded) is an unsuccessful shopping strategy. Very often, those all-bought-in-a-very-short-time-span items become clutter.

Time passes. The obsession wanes. Your devotion to the crop top lessens. You find out you’re not really all that into tea. Or, uncannily enough, you find out that although you’ve stocked yourself well with multiples, you still tend to only ever wear or use 1 from the bunch.

But then you’re stuck with all this stuff. All these things that seemed so necessary, such a good idea in the moment. So much so that you had to have 7.

There’s a kind of momentum that overtakes us when we buy things. All of sudden, buying more seems like the best idea, like the only idea! The surest way to buy 3 pairs of shoes is to buy 1, as the old saying goes (don’t Google that, it’s not an old saying). This isn’t to negate the obvious pros of reaching clarity with your preferences and then abiding by those preferences during future shopping trips.

If you’re able to come to the realization that you really feel best in white shirts, and that owning a bunch of those and none other really will do you best because it’s what you’ll wear, go ahead and buy only white. Still though, you’ll be far better off if those white purchases are made periodically over time, rather than all at once.

It’s inevitable that as time passes, your preferences will shift, or the current trends will. Your hurried stocking up on identicals becomes a trap you never intended to ensnare yourself in.

Enjoy your current selection. The identicals and super similars aren’t going anywhere. They’ll be there. But until you make a dent in your stash or put a stain on your new shirt, they’re not for you, yet.

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It doesn't matter what goals or resolutions you set, dreams you launch, ideas you create, or relationships you make; it is inevitable that at some point or other, you're going to screw it up.
 I know, I know; it's the first month of the year new--of the new decade!--and the blankness of the slate laying before us is so sparkly white that my hinting at a blemish may make you cringe.

Only, it's the truth. Your track record will not be perfect. Your newly adopted good habits may be difficult to incorporate into your daily life. Those budding romances may turn out to be as solid as dust.
 But the glory does not go to the one who gets on that proverbial equine once, friend, but again, and again, and again. Back up on it after you've fallen or been knocked off. Back up after you've elected to recede into couch-loafing and pouring potato chips directly from the bag into your mouth, a kind of keg of spuds, for three days in a row. Back up into action after having your heart broken, after letting your house become a mess.
 I'm going to remind you of a true but very boring fact: few worthwhile pursuits are effortlessly achieved. The test of your character isn't your ability to try once, but to persist. It is necessary that you cultivate in yourself the strength to recover, ever quicker. To bend and not to break. To learn and not to be dissuaded. To develop an internal spring that, whenever it is collapsed, compels itself immediately, with equal ferocity as the first time, to bound back into form.
 This January, this new month of the new year of the new decade, resolve to be resilient.
. *Calendar design by @ariel_marko exclusively for Live Simply
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