We live in a world full of people who are always seeking to better themselves. This is why we have so many people who try to find someone who is trying to better themselves. When you live a life trying to please others, you quickly find that you don't live a very big life at all. You get caught up in the daily grind of trying to please everyone else and before you know it you are complaining about the lack of money and the difficulties of raising children.
The best way to live is to stop trying to change other people's lives for them. When you work to make someone else successful you are really trying to stop yourself from becoming successful. If you are successful in helping them, then you will be more successful yourself. When you live a life striving to please others, you quickly find out that you are not a very good person at all. You become self- critical and depressed because you realize that you have been doing everything wrong.
People often think that they should set their own lives straight but the reality is that when you are living a life you are trying to please others, you rarely set your own life straight. People often think that if they just follow the rules of society or if they are nice to everyone they will be accepted. In fact this is never true. To be accepted you must do things that are out of the ordinary. When you are living a life striving to please others and you never do things out of the ordinary this is where people will criticize you.
Unfortunately if you are doing things that are out of the ordinary you are labeled as a quitter. You will immediately find that you won't be accepted into many social groups because you are not part of the group. Quitters are not wanted around the office, in the church, on a jury, etc. Quitters are simply not wanted.
Try to find someone to blame when you feel like you are trying to live a life that is not of your own making. If you can't easily point the finger of blame at someone else than you are most likely trying to live a life of your own making. In many cases this is a very self-defeating way of life. When you are striving to please others by blaming them for your problems, you are more focused on what other people think about you than you are of your own making.
I know that this seems harsh but it is the truth. Try as we might to please others all the time, it just doesn't work out well in the end. When you live a life trying to be perfect all the time you are basically just masking your own inadequacies. When you have a real sense of who you are you will be able to do things right and to love yourself.
The only way to really find happiness and peace of mind is to start to learn about yourself. When you live a life of your own making you will realize that you do actually have a lot to offer anyone else. This may be hard for some of you to believe but many times when you truly look inside you will see that there is a lot more to life than trying to please others all the time. When you live a life of your own you will find that you have a lot to give back. When you give back to the world you will be amazed at the difference this makes to the lives of others.
It doesn't matter if you are in the corporate world or a home based business, trying to please others all the time is a sure fire way to burnout and never achieve true happiness. When you live a life of your own, you will be amazed at how it changes the way people treat you and the way they respond to you. When you try to please others all the time, you end up causing people to ignore you, shut you out, or treat you with less respect than you deserve. When you decide to take control over your own life, you will quickly discover that the happiness and fulfillment you have been searching for is right around the corner.