July 28th, 2015

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Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

WOULD ALL THE PEOPLE PLEASERS STEP RIGHT UP!!!

Yeah, you know who you are. You are me. Well, you are what I used to always be (and can sometimes still fall into that trap). I’m trying desperately to stay out of that trap for good.

Let’s face it: every one of us wants to be liked. No one wants to feel rejection. Not even “the Donald.” Being rejected by our peers or someone we desire acceptance from hurts deeply. So, in order to avoid that rejection, we do what we can to please others. And please understand, there is nothing wrong with that. We don’t want to be a “Biff Tannen” in our relationships with others.

But we can get to the point of craving that acceptance. We can get to the point of doing-things-over for the purpose of pleasing someone. We can even backtrack on plans just because not everyone is okay with them. There comes a point where we stop pleasing and start living our lives as we see fit. Shoot, if we lived for the okay from everyone, we will never get anything done. EVER!

You have probably heard it before but it bears repeating: you will never please all the people all the time. Someone else beat me to the punch: “The sure way to failure is trying to please everyone.”

Our ultimate “line in the sand” is we are only needing to please ONE person. It comes down to doing and being for an Audience of ONE. His acceptance is all that really matters.  So…how are you doing?

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