As I’m gathering ideas for my upcoming dissertation prep course (yep, you read correctly~!), I reached out to a few colleagues for suggestions. In the responses that followed, I received a nice reminder that learning to say “no” is an important step towards self-fulfillment.

Some ideas for help in this area:

99 ways to say no (Claire Diaz-Ortiz): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130501190655-52397036-100-ways-to-say-no/

Say “No” in Different Languages (Beelinguapp): https://beelinguapp.com/blog/how-to-say-no-in-different-languages

Serving from Your Saucer* (Lisa Nichols): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ty_emHQgI8

*The original video is from Facebook, but this is the person I first heard this idea from.

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For some of us, making a mistake can diminish our self worth because we’ve been conditioned to believe that our value is tied to how perfect we are. Or perhaps, it’s a sense of control that provides safety from the environment around us. It’s incredibly easy to beat ourselves up, feel unworthy, even unlovable in these moments. But you know it’s okay to be human, right? I had to remind myself of this recently and get back to a point where I didn’t allow one mistake to keep me trapped in a mental space of self-loathing… I darn say self-hatred.

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Each step you take is getting you one step closer to finishing. Remember that Doc!

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