Decide on your top five priorities and say no to everything else

- [Instructor] Decide on your five top priorities and say no to everything else. Saying no has more creative power than ideas, insights, and talent combined. "No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations." Kevin Ashton wrote in a medium post called Creative People Say No. We are not taught to say no, we are taught not to say no. No is rude, no is a rebuff, a rebuttal, a minor act of verbal violence. No is for drugs and strangers with candy. And yet we can't do everything, so sometimes we must say no. But in order to even be able to say no, we need to have an effective filter for all the invitations that come our way, invitations to attend and contribute, requests for help, opportunities to join or to do even for those things we think we should do that don't come from any outside source, but rather from a place inside ourselves. Before we can muster the strength to say no, we need to be totally clear…