[P4wl0w]

This is some serious and good advice for doing business and also managing personal relationships.

Do not fear to say 'No!' and do not try to be everyone's darling.

I had to learn this the hard way because of exactly the same eagerness to do business and take up on all opportunities.

My advice is to regularly reflect on your (business) relationships and evaluate them (good, ok, bad) and sort out everyone who just gives you more pain than value.

Of course 'value' in business is not only profit but also a good relationship to your customer and wanting to do the job rather than wanting to do another one. In personal life 'value' can be that someone accepts you as you are and/or tells you their honest opinion even if you do not like what you hear.

You will have to define your own meaning of 'value' to evaluate these relationships.