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People pleasing doesn’t work and this is why

It doesn’t pay to cater to the needs of others before you’ve catered to your own.

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E.B. Johnson
Jun 26, 2019
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It doesn’t pay to cater to the needs of others before you’ve catered to your own.

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by: E.B. Johnson

The need to please is imbedded in our DNA, but it can become a burden that’s too heavy to bear when we start living our lives in the service of others and forget to live it for ourselves. While caring for others is a bea…

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