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\u201cYou have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage\u2014pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say \u2018no\u2019 to other things. \u00a0And the way you do that is by having a bigger \u2018yes\u2019 burning inside. The enemy of the \u2018best\u2019 is often the \u2018good.'\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nStephen R. Covey<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cYou have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage\u2014pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say \u2018no\u2019 to other things. \u00a0And the way you do that is by having a bigger \u2018yes\u2019 burning inside. The enemy of the \u2018best\u2019 is often the \u2018good.’\u201d Stephen R. Covey \u00a0 Posted from Monterey, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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