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You have to practice the skill of disappointing people. If you're always nice, if you're always people-pleasing, it's not going to get you very far. Disappointing is a matter of growth. If you are always afraid of disappointing people, one, that means you don't find that they're emotionally strong enough for it. Two, it means that you find yourself so important and vital to their mental health and through their life that you have to baby walk them, hold their hand through every single conversation. Disappointing people is hard because everybody's a recovering people-pleaser. If you're going to people-please, at least make sure one of them is you.
You have to practice the skill of disappointing people. If you're always nice, if you're always people-pleasing, it's not going to get you very far. Disappoint…
Ideas in this flowchart
- Practicing Disappointment
- Importance of Disappointing
- Growth through Disappointment
- Challenges of People-Pleasing
- Emotional Strength Assumption
- Overestimating Self-Importance
- Common Struggle
- Self-Pleasing