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You Can’t Please All of the People All of the Time — That’s a Positive
Recognizing who you can and can’t please is a highly freeing, positive act.
You may or may not be familiar with this quote attributed to both Abraham Lincoln and John Lydgate,
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”
If you are a people pleaser — this is a bitter pill to swallow. But doing so is surprisingly freeing.
Like it or not — it is impossible to please everyone. And though this can be frustrating and infuriating — it’s actually a good thing.
Why? Because recognizing this truth helps us to better be our genuine selves.
What does being our genuine selves mean?
How many times have you done something because you thought it was what someone else expected? Or you did something to accommodate someone — even though it didn’t please you in the least, nor feel all that good to do?
