Declining Invitations Gracefully

Staying On Top of the Game: Declining Invitations Gracefully

Treat every invitation as a mere compliment and that way declining the invitation is a lot easier to do!! When someone invites you to a group, a party, an event, or to be a member that's a MASSIVE compliment!! They're saying "hey, we like you, we can tell you're a good person, we want to interact with you more often or on a regular basis". So often very nice and grateful people find it difficult to decline invitations they can't accept for fear of it looking like a sock in the gut in the face of "great praise of an invitation". Therefore, merely treat each invitation as a simple huge compliment to which you say "Thanks!!" and act incredibly grateful toward the compliment aspect of the invitation!! But most importantly do that AFTER you decline. How you end is emphasized when communicating so end with the praise, on the upbeat. So immediately say "Oh I'd love to, but I can't. But you guys are soo awesome wow!! Fun times for sure!! Jeez great group of people!" So you get it clear that you decline the invitation but then you smother that declination with praise and herald and more gratitude again, so the part about you that people like -- the grateful, appreciative, respectful, loving part -- stays on even keel, stays emergent, stays in the game.

Why is the skill of declining an invitation so vital to remaining positve, focused, clear, and ontrack with your own goals?? Possessing the skill to effectively and gracefully decline inclinations is essential to achievement.