Susan Schubert’s Reviews > Stop People Pleasing: Be Assertive, Stop Caring What Others Think, Beat Your Guilt, & Stop Being a Pushover > Status Update

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.

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.