I’m sure most of you have seen this letter from E.B White circulating around the Internet …

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I LOVE IT.

Recently I’ve dealt with some health issues because of stress. 99.99% of the stress was stuff I had control over, stuff I’d signed up for. I said yes WAY to much–like almost exclusively–even when it didn’t make sense, I knew I shouldn’t, or I didn’t want to. So I’ve been trying to say no more the past couple of years.

You know what I’ve found? It’s HARD to say no.

Sometimes–especially when you’re a person who people expect to say yes–it gets downright awkward after you say no. Sometimes people keep pushing until you say yes. Sometimes they get mad.

I don’t want to lie, but sometimes it’s really hard to say, “I just don’t want to.”

Enter: THIS letter!