How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

Daily writing prompt
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

Remember the book title ‘No man is an island’? Which means that most of us live as part of a family or a community. At times our goals clash with the objectives of others around us. When this happens to me, I have to perform a balancing act. Prioritize what is mutually beneficial. This does not mean living by sacrificing all my dreams, but by finding the path of the golden mean, the middle path.