Breaking Free From People-Pleasing Mentality

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We please people to make them happy, to fit in, or to cover our insecurities. You must stop it. Love yourself the way you are. You are good enough. Don’t crave for love, give yourself love. Because you can’t make people like you. If they don’t like you, there is nothing you can do about it. Forget about their love. Your love for yourself is enough to make you happy for the rest of your life.

No one is perfect. No one is better than you.And you are not better than anyone. That is good enough. Don’t give up your values because you want people to like you. Don’t do it. According to Ryan Holiday, “We can seek progress without being perfectionists and we can be pragmatic without being unprincipled.” In other words, don’t give up your values just because you want to make people happy.

The more you please people, the more you harm yourself. You will never be happy with yourself. To stop people from manipulating you, you must believe in yourself. You must never be afraid to say NO to them. If you want to live your best life, you MUST be in charge of your life. The choice is yours.

I am breaking free from my people-pleasing mentality

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“If you want to live your best life, you must be in charge of your life.”

5 Easy Ways To Know Yourself Today

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To know who you are, you must face yourself. You must face your fears. You must face your failures. You need to know yourself before you can know others.

Here are 5 easy ways to know yourself today:

You must pay attention to your life.

Pay attention to how you live your life. If you are doing something that is against your values, stay away from it. Socrates said, “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

Accept what you don’t know.

It is okay to admit what you don’t know. “It is better to be a fool for a moment than to be a fool forever.” According to Socrates, “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

Learn how to think for yourself.

To know yourself, you must learn to think for yourself. It helps you to connect with yourself. As Socrates once said, “To find yourself, think for yourself.”

Believe in yourself.

If you want to get anything done in your life, you must believe that you can do it. According to William Faulkner, “Others have done it before me. I can, too.”

Live your life.

Live your life to the fullest. You have only one life to live, why not enjoy it? Socrates said many years ago that, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” And Henry James said, “Live all you can- it’s a mistake not to.”

Live your life. Do not try to be who you are not. Be honest with yourself and others. If you can do that, you can deal with yourself.