Lifestyle
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How to Be Less of a People Pleaser and Not Feel Guilty About It
If you want to live a life of purpose, you must cut back on your people pleasing ways. While it’s important to do good and serve others, there is a line when it changes from serving to people pleasing. Do you find yourself consistently saying ‘yes’ to others when you really want to say ‘no’? Do you feel like others are taking advantage of your niceness? Are you always thinking about ways to make others happy while neglecting your own happiness? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you’re a people pleaser. While there are many reasons for people pleasing behavior, I believe the root of people pleasing is…
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How to Boost Your Confidence: Two Lessons from My First Half Marathon
If you want to design and live a more confident life, you must be willing to try new things. Want to know why? It’s because a confident life is a life of growth. How can you grow if you never do anything or try anything new? I tried something new last year, and though it was painful, it was definitely a period of growth in my life. This painful thing I’m talking about was running my first half-marathon. If someone had told me a few years ago that I would actually finish a half marathon without dying, I would laugh and say “that’s never going to happen”. I did not believe…
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The Necessity of Self-Care
If you’re too tired to exercise or you’re too busy to take an hour to do something relaxing for yourself, something needs to change. Unfortunately, being able to work long hours, pull all-nighters, and eat on the go is sometimes worn as a badge of honor. However, the truth is that you are doing yourself a disservice by not giving your body and health the attention it needs and deserves. You are also short-changing those around you because you are not functioning at your best. If you want to live on purpose and with passion, you must learn to block time in your schedule for self-care. This may be hard for people-pleasers who have over committed themselves,…
