Yes or No??

Salam,

Yesterday, I went to Kem Telaga Batin for a duty. Some sort of taking care the campers and all.

When I was there, I had a rare chance to have a conversation with my colleague.

You see, I'm not kind of a girl who just speak her mind to anybody. Usually, I will speak to someone who I feel connected.

And it just happen that this person is not someone that I feel the connection. Well at least not at the moment of time.

K is a workaholic and perfectionist. Nothing wrong with that. But K did mention about something that sparked my interest to have a deep conversation with K.

K mentioned that I am a YES person. Meaning, I say Y-E-S to almost everything that has been assigned for me to do. K pointed out that because of my YES-ness attitude, it is something that can eat me alive!

You see, when I have been appointed to do, let say, a work that is out of my league, instead of saying NO and turn it down, I say YES! Without knowing the effect later on, I just take it and accept it as a challenge.

Pretty blunt right?

So K thought that it would be much better if once in a while I said NO. Well K got a point there.

I need to say NO sometimes.

K worried that people might take advantage on this matter and start to pour with works that unrelated to my core business.

So K warned me about this and asked me to consider some solutions to avoid this thing from keep happening in the future.

The problem is how to say NO?

It's so hard to say the two letters since I am new to the current workplace and the youngest one (anak bongsula org kate) among my colleagues.

I need to build good rapport with others.

I know I have been pushed here and there yet my patience is still with me. But till when?

Seriously, I don't want to be the YES person forever. Something needs to be done.