Status Updates From Stop People Pleasing: Be As...

When you start to set boundaries for yourself and what you can and cannot do, you will face disapproval, but it won’t kill you. If people are angry it might not be about you as much as it might be about them.

“You must be selfish. Often we have this belief that selfishness is always bad and never good. The reality is you must be selfish even when you want to serve others, because only then can you operate at full capacity.” - ch 3

Whenever you have a question about if something you need is important enough to leave work, or turn down someone’s request, think to yourself, “if my friend asked me this same question or was in this same situation, what would I say to them?”

It feels like a giant magnifying glass is being placed over me and it also seems to point at some of my family members. I’m not sure they would be willing to read this though, as this kind of reality is a hard pill to swallow.

I didn’t like it very much, it’s a good book but doesn’t say anything new for me, and i feel like the author keeps repeating the same thing but in different ways