{"id":498,"date":"2007-11-27T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/11\/27\/how-can-i-say-no\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:24:00","slug":"how-can-i-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/how-can-i-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Say NO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who has only been in business for myself a short time, about a year and a half. I find myself saying yes to requests that I probably should have said no to.<\/p>\n<p>As time goes and my business grows on I do find myself &#8220;firing&#8221; problem customers and not taking every request for work just because I can. I think that my main problem may be that I don&#8217;t have any hard and fast rules for what I will and won&#8217;t do, but today I was reading &#8221; 10 Absolute &#8220;Nos!&#8221; for Freelancers&#8221; on a site called Wake Up Later: Freelance Blog + Passive Income.<\/p>\n<p>I think that I will give these a try.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakeuplater.com\/freelance-lessons\/10-absolute-nos-for-freelancers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><font color=\"#ffffff\">. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who has only been in business for myself a short time, about a year and a half. I find myself saying yes to requests that I probably should have said no to. As time goes and my business grows on I do find myself &#8220;firing&#8221; problem customers and not taking every request for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}