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> Two simple tricks to reduce new commitments:
> • When someone asks you to do something in the future, ask yourself if you'd want to do it if it were today. If the answer is no, say no.
> • If you're about to say yes to something under the assumption that you'll have more time for it in the future, say no to it instead.
Fwd: How to Change Your Life: The Case for Slowing Down
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This is the way so many ambitious women spend their twenties, thirties, and beyond—building the “balanced life” they were told everyone wants, then not wanting it themselves.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
But I sometimes think of my journey through adulthood to date as one of incrementally discovering the truth that there is no institution, no walk of life, in which everyone isn’t just winging it, all the time.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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