If you want to be more productive, you should make a habit of saying no. when you don’t do anything is usually faster than doing. Similarly, no meeting ends quicker than no meeting. Such phrases do not bear a literal meaning but show that people complicate their lives more by doing things they shouldn’t. For instance, many meetings held shouldn’t be there in the first place. Typically, someone may ask you to do a task to which you would reply with a ‘sure thing.’ However, few days pass, and you feel overwhelmed with a lot on your to-do list . More so, the task you agreed to frustrates you only because you decided to it. Consequently, the best approach would be asking if some things are necessary. Usually, a more significant part of the things that frustrate people are not essential, and a simple ‘no’ would be a life-saver. Conversely, why do people say yes if the rewards of saying no are many? Why People Say Yes Usually, people agree to many things not because they want to do them but