Saying Yes, is very easy and we face the opposite amount of difficulty in saying the word NO, even if we want to. Reasons, may vary some do not feel to dishearten others, some may feel it is a matter of prestige, some take it too personally and some people take is emotionally. 

A while back when I was attending a presentation on Time Management, given by on of my team mate, stress was given on how to say NO, which made me to recollect the incident that happened the other day when I was confronted by a  networking(MLM) professional at a famus mart. The way he approached me was as irksome as before but he was not aware that he was not the first guy to make this futile attempt. Now after he started like, have we met somewhere before, your face looks very familiar to me, you must be Mr. X’s good friend etc etc, he kept on telling me about what he is doing and how he is generating extra income. As I was keeping quite and was listening to him quietly he took this for granted that I am the guy in for his  fishing net. After he was done, he asked what I am doing and whether I would be interested in generating extra income. And this time instead of saying NO, I tried something else. I said I am already a part of this network. Not only his excitement vanished, he was baffled for a moment without knowing what to speak and how to go ahead from there. He just Thanked me and took an about turn. This day I learned that saying NO might not be as usful as saying ‘YES’, especially when you want to mean ‘NO’. Someone very rightly said;

“Whenever you want to say NO, make your explanations Simple”

Here is an example, you got a call on your telephone for a particular credit card promotion, and when you said NO, you would not like to go for one. The person at the other end would surely ask why, what is the reason and would start mentioning about the promotion a little more in detail. In this case, start like this, “Yes, I would love to, but you see I have already a bunch of them and what I understand from you is, your card does not give anything over and above than the cards that I have.” If the guy at the other end is understandable enough then he will wish you and keep the phone itself. If NOT then, you can ask him to take your phone number out of the calling list.

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