Living Intentionally
How to live happily in the modern world
Writing about happiness, health and wellbeing
But not in a boring way
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People-pleasers are… well, I’ll start by telling you what they are not. They are not simply kind folk who please other people by being nice. Long-frocked angel women who comb your hair for you and make you your favourite dinner and maybe even personally feed it to you as well. Strapping men who check your tyre pressure and sort your odd socks and maybe even actually find pairs out of them. These sound like lovely (make-believe) pleasing people; but people-pleasers they are not. (At least I don’t think they are, I haven’t met them).
The whole thing about people-pleasing is that it comes at a cost to you. “People-pleasers displease themselves to please others”, as Jay Shetty puts it. Or as Emma Reed Turrell says, “People-pleasing is a self-sacrificing behavioural compulsion.”
What sort of stuff do you mean? I sense you call out. Take special occasions…
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I think it’s fair to say we’re all feeling poorer than ever these days, whether’s that’s time or money or both. It can sometimes feel like it’s too hard to have fun.
Here are ten things you could / should try today to rustle up some goodness, without spending a single thing…
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