In my estimation, when a new opportunity or responsiblity that will expand your leadership/influence/experience comes along you ought to give real serious thought to saying YES!
Most people don’t say yes because they’re already busy. I get this, I understand it, but I also know it’s a trap. Time management is not just filling your day and being efficient. It’s being effective, which is all about doing the RIGHT things. If you’re knee-jerk reaction is to say NO because you’re busy, then you’ll never be open to filling your days with more interesting and effective tasks.
Here’s what I know about saying YES
1. It Almost Always Means More Work Initially: At the very minimum, it stretches your brain because it’s not what you’ve done before and it requires more emotional energy. This alone shouldn’t be a reason to say NO.
2. It Forces You to STOP Something Else: I’m a big fan of making a list of things that you dont’ need to be doing anymore. We’re people of habit, that’s a good thing, but it also means we carry on with tasks, assignments, regularly scheduled events that don’t have meaning or purpose. When you add some new responsiblity/opportunity it’s a great time to evaluate: Do I need to be doing this anymore?
3. It Keeps You Young: My boys are forever asking me to do stuff that I’ve not done since I was a teenager. That’s great. It also means I pull a muscle every now and then. 
Fact is many of the reasons we say NO are rooted in just plain inflexibility. Stay mentally limber by saying YES to new challenges and opportunities.
and on the other end of this is the freeing power that comes from saying ‘no’ – when you’ve gotten caught up in pleasing everyone else and volunteering for everything and putting your needs on the backburner – saying ‘no’ can free up time to rest, recover, meditate, and grow in a way that being always ever busy can often only give us a glimpse of.
big time. That’s why I always have a list of things I want need to Stop Doing.
Great thought.
Time Management! Yes or No? Another Fork in the Road of Life! Choices; so hard to make. Yes means more work! What am I working to accomplish? Why do choice carry around a sort of Double Bind many times in life? Who is making the Hard choices; is it me or is it God? Why do I care? What is Love anyway, and can I give it away anyway? Is it just me; or is there much more out there? Why do I wonder about such things? Time: What is time management and what am I managing really? How do I make sense of all these complicated matters anyway?
I Love I pray for Love I pray for Love for others I put myself as Number Two And I Seek You My God to inlighten me and then my choice seem much more simple~~~Love others first even if I hate them and Love Christ in order that He can teach this simple man how to be; Free and Joyous knowing that I am going somewhere most beautifull beyond my wildess dreams where time seems less important and everything is solve in an instant and I don’t even have to force it as pushing a string I can never really force anything in God’s World.