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Waste your Time...attend a meeting!

1. Attendance at internal meetings

The runaway winner. Few of these seem to follow any formal structure or reach clear action-based decisions and results, most are an excuse for politics.

Tip: Set a clear, defined outcome at the start of every meeting – and review if it has been achieved.

Meeting should come with a sanity clause. They may all have a part to play in our lives, and that is our choice.

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Powerful words and phrases

When someone makes a ridiculous statement pervading as the absolute truth, select the most emotive part of the belief and repeat it back to them, as a question, with the word "really" in front. Ask in a direct and friendly way.

"They always tell lies"

"Really, always?"

And if that doesn't work for you, More">do something else...

... until something does

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