BEING ABLE TO SAY "NO"

Part of the strategy of "doing the opposite" is having the ability to say no. This is basically sacrificing things that you would usually do or things that give you comfort as opposed to doing things that you should do.

Let me give you an example:

It's 5pm on a Saturday afternoon. What do you do? Do you accept the invitation to hang out and have a few beers or do you stay at the library/home office/shared work space to finish the little project that you have?

I know what I would do. Yes! I would go and have those beers. But the opposite suggests that that is the worst thing to do. The opposite is to say "no" and to work on that project and if you really needed that beer, then maybe you can go at 8pm or 9pm but you have work to do first.