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<p>Happy new year and <a contents="here " data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://mailchi.mp/1a20a272001f/first-stars-of-the-year-179293" target="_blank">here </a>are your first stars of the 2018! </p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-indent: .5in;">Once upon a time in Hollywood, there was a studio executive named Sherry Lansing who rose to one of the most powerful positions in the film industry and became legendary for, among other things, the particularly classy way she turned people down. It is said that she made people feel so acknowledged and important that even when she was giving the news that the show was pulled, the movie wasn’t going to get made and the whole crew was fired, the bad-news recipients still walked out of her office feeling like something very cool had just happened. Now we all can’t be Sherry Lansing, but we can certainly aspire to such graciousness.<p><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Sensitive people and Empaths find it especially difficult to say no. They already feel responsible for the other people’s emotions without being the direct cause of them. Saying no can in fact be so difficult for sensitive people that they just don’t do it. They instead say yes to things they have no interest in, no benefit to derive from, no desire at all to be a part of. They say yes because it’s just too hard to say no.</span></p>
<p>Sometimes this works out well! People broaden themselves by doing things they don’t want to do. For instance, if everyone only said yes to eating what they knew they liked, kale wouldn’t even be a thing.</p>
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You should still be able to say no, whether it’s good for you or not. And if you went around saying yes just because you were afraid to hurt someone’s feelings, you’d be into a lot worse than kale. So let’s take away the part where the feelings get hurt so that you can say no with great ease. Sherry Lansing has yet to give up the secret recipe to her particular brand of social grace, and until she does, here are some guiding principles for those who seek mastery in the art of declining. <p><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Always project yourself as having a lot going on.</b></p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><p><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Every no is a yes to something else. When you pick strawberry ice cream, maybe you’re technically rejecting the vanilla and mint ice cream but nobody thinks of it that way. When you focus your mind on what you’re saying yes to, you’ll have the energy of choosing instead of the energy of rejecting.</span></p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><p><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Know your rights.</b></p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-indent: .5in;"><p><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Bottom line, you have a right to fill your time with whatever you want, and other people don’t have the right to know what that is. There are those who will act like they have a claim to your hours and your privacy – well, they are the ones being presumptuous, not you. You don’t have to make a big deal about this but just knowing in your heart that it’s your right to decline without reason will empower your position.</span></p></div>
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<p>           You can opt-out of an idea and opt-in to the person proposing it. Make it clear with a lot of affinity and warmth that your decision to answer in the negative is only because the idea isn’t a good fit for you, even though the person presenting it is right up your alley. It helps when you genuinely like people. Make a habit of finding lots of reasons to like people and this vibe will come naturally to you. They'll feel your acceptance without you having to say much. They’ll soften around you and they’ll decide not to take offense when you can’t do everything they want you to do because they’ll feel at their core that you really like them.</p>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><p>         <b>Understand how "no" helps "yes."</b></p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><p><b>          </b>Marketers call it the Law of Scarcity: people want what they can’t have. If something is rare, it is perceived as having more value. If you decline most offers, the few that you accept will feel very special indeed. They will cherish your time and crave your approval.  On the other hand, saying yes to everything devalues what you have to offer. So you’re actually doing everyone a favor when you say no often. Your building mystique and excitement around you, making your company into a prize.  </p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><p>            <b>Grace takes practice.</b></p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt;"><p>          No one is born graceful, not even a prima ballerina. Like physical grace, social grace takes practice. Many hours go into building that core of strength that is the essence of grace.  And you’ll never get practice in saying no by agreeing to everything. For this reason, “no” should be a daily habit of yours and just as easy for you to say as “yes” is. I hope these tips empower you to make the choices that best represent what you really want to do with your one precious life!  </p></div>
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<p>Friendship with the highly sensitive is sweeter for its depth, more fun for its specificity and trickier for its complexity. Then again, you just have to know the rules – here are three. </p>
<p>No lumping.<br><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">One easy way to keep track of people is to categorize them. They are your nearest and dearest… the people from the gym… the ones from the office… etc. And this works super well in theory, but in real life people are not categories. They are not the extras in the movie starring you. They are individuals who deserve and appreciate specific attention. Sensitive people will not happily stay in a relationship in which they feel categorized instead of cherished for the unique individuals they are.</span></p>
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<p>Discretion please.<br>It's <span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">a crappy fact of digital reality that you can pretty much track what anyone is doing without you these days. You don’t have to be a highly sensitive person to get utterly bummed out when you scroll through your feed and learn what you weren’t invited to. You might not believe this, but rumor has it that there’s this very cool and mysterious breed of people who prefer to keep their social lives on a need-to-know basis and will be especially mindful not to broadcast events that might make dear ones feel left out. Those people are called Real Friends. If you’re extraordinarily empathic, sensitive or introverted you should find people like this and hang on tight.</span></p>
<p>Be a volley baller, not a vacuum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br>Empathetic people do tend to have more patience for humanity than others. Sensitive people attract those who most need a kind heart and a listening ear. But a friend who soaks up all the love and attention and never returns the serve… well, it gets old. And the thing is, an Empath will put up with it for much longer than anyone else will. There are a few good reasons for this. For one, highly sensitive people often have such a rich <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inner life that their first instinct isn’t necessarily to seek a lot of external praise and attention. They are often happy to place the focus on others. But not forever. As soon as a highly sensitive person realizes that the lack of attention and care they get from another person is not a passing trend but a fact of life, they will bail.</p>
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