No. Not happening. Not on your life. Not now. Not ever.
If only saying no was always this easy. Sometimes it’s downright uncomfortable and difficult, so we say yes when we really want to say, "NO!"
"Declining a request is a balancing act," says Leslie Shore, author of Listen to Succeed: How to Identify and Overcome Barriers to Effective Listening. "The decliner must take a moment and compose their reason for declining in a way that lets the asker know that the decline is final."
