How to Stop Being a People Pleaser Without Guilt (3 Easy Tips)

Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you're listening to one of our new series of Squiggly shortcuts. These episodes are designed to be really short. They are designed to be very useful and to solve a problem that you might be dealing with right now. So we are going to talk through some ideas for action that you can use straight away if this is a situation that you're struggling with.

So today's squiggly shortcut is on people pleasing. If you are someone who finds yourself saying yes when you really want to say no or maybe you're overwhelmed by all the other things that people want you to do and it meaning that you're not getting on the things that are important to you, it's likely that people pleasing might have become a bit of a problem for you. And lots of people have this. So please don't feel like you're on your own with it.

But the good news is there are some very simple, practical things that we can do that don't feel too scary, don't feel like you're being too difficult a person. You can still be yourself and you can still be nice, but you can also stop people pleasing getting in your own way. So three ideas. The first one is pause before you find yourself saying yes.

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