How to Stop Letting Other People's Opinions Control You - Live For Yourself

Being liked by everyone might feel nice & living life based on other people's opinions might be easy, but it's not worth your autonomy & being an extension of someone else for the sake of making life easier. I have 7 ways to stop living your life based on other people's opinions that will help you change this mindset.

Show Notes:
Being liked by everyone used to be a necessity to me. I HAD to be liked by everyone or I felt like a failure & that my existence on Earth didn’t matter. Dramatic, I know. But it’s how I felt because pleasing others was so deeply ingrained in me & being accepted by others was what made me feel safe. I needed a place to feel safe since I didn’t at home, so school, church, activities with others had to be the place for me.

The problem with being obsessed with other people liking you is that you make that need more important than anything else. And what those people say & how they feel about what you decide to do or don’t do become truths for you.This is because you have gotten so used to them liking you that the possibility of them not liking you anymore due to you doing something opposite of their advice is scary & crippling to your own thoughts & opinions.

We all want to be liked & accepted. But some of us take it too far. I certainly did. And I missed out on really being me for the longest time because of it. And I realize that fitting in & being a part of something can garner more respect from others & even make life easier at times, but it’s really creating more problems than it’s solving. You’re living your life based on conditions set by others, not actual acceptance. And I understand that many of us developed this behavior because at one time in our lives affection, care & acceptance WAS conditional & we learned how to play the game. But I’m here to tell you (& myself) that we no longer need to do this.

We are going to create a new mindset today that echoes the truths of not needing to fit in to be successful, to be respected or even to live a good life. You can make your own decisions & like who you are & still have all those things. It’s actually liberating.

Today I’m going to share with you 7 Ways to Stop Letting Other People’s Opinions Control You:

1. Stop Feeling Embarrassed. 
2. Become More Self-Aware.
3. Learn to Trust Yourself.
4. Find Better Friends.
5. Embrace Failure & Mistakes.
6. You’re Gonna Need Thick Skin.
7. Evaluate How Happy You Actually Are.

Thank you again for listening & I hope this episode was helpful.

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