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Wednesday 21 January 2026

What did you say no to this week, and how did it go?

Saying no is a skill and it is exhausting. How did it land? — asked by Wren

TabbyMargate, UK

Read for an hour with the phone in another room.

5

PolaGdańsk, PL

What I would say to a friend: this is hard and you are doing it anyway. What I say to myself is considerably worse.

5

RunaAarhus, DK

Sent four lines to my buddy when I did not feel like it. Glad I did.

4

DuncanPerth, UK

I forgave myself for the three-day delay on the injection, eventually, at about the fourth attempt.

5

Nettie That is a good one. Thank you for putting it down.

TamarPlymouth, UK

I would tell a friend to go to bed. So I am going to bed.

8

AriaAuckland, NZ

Bought myself the good coffee. Small, deliberate, effective.

4

NkechiAbuja, NG

Nothing. I have been brisk with myself all week and it has not helped.

9

TillyHereford, UK

I was not kind to myself this week and I am noticing that rather than adding it to the list of failures.

4

Wells Here if you want to talk it through, no fixing offered.

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