Are you overly agreeable and amenable?

Are you often called a people-pleaser?

Do you struggle to say no when your boss asks you to take on more work than you could possibly account for in one day, or when asked to (once again) plan the office morning tea?

The thought of letting others down is as awful as the idea of saying no to their actual face. You want to be a team player. You want to be easy to work with, helpful, supportive, nice.

You want people to like you, and that’s okay. In fact, it’s normal. It’s our human wiring to want to play nicely with others.

It’s also a major stumbling block to being effective at work, especially when putting others first means putting ourselves last. And therein lies the rub. How do we help ourselves, without feeling like we are letting others down?

This is the very idea I explored in this article: https://bit.ly/how-to-stop-being-a-people-pleaser-in-3-simple-steps

What ideas do you have to stop the people pleasing habit in its tracks?