Laura Tong

“I’ve had a problem saying ‘no’ in the past and now I’m cautious about taking on new things. I need to make sure I don’t get overwhelmed again".”
― Laura Tong, The Life-Changing Power of NO!: How To Stop Trying To Please Everyone, Start Standing Up For Yourself, And Say No Without Guilt Or Conflict (Even To Difficult People)

“You see when you're a serial people-pleaser, juggling all those 'yeses' in the air, you're bound to drop one...and then another.  You’re so overstretched, so overwhelmed that eventually you let them down.  And because up to then you’ve proved so reliable, they’ve learned that they can ask you to do stuff that’s super important to them. So when you do eventually have to let them down, you let them down hard. And the trust they had in you dies right there.”
― Laura Tong, The Life-Changing Power of NO!: How To Stop Trying To Please Everyone, Start Standing Up For Yourself, And Say No Without Guilt Or Conflict (Even To Difficult People)