People Pleasers

The purpose of this blog is to not only help you to discover your destiny, but to also help you not to waste time on unnecessary things while achieving it. What I want to touch on today is the well known topic of people pleasing. Everyone falls into this because you either don't want to upset people or you want to make everyone happy. And even though it may seem like common sense people can't seem to grasp the fact that you will never be able to please everyone. The hardest of these to deal with is the fact that you can't always do what you family wants.

Now don't confuse what I am saying with honoring your mother and father. This is always the rule, however if what your parents or any family member wants you to do is opposite of what you know in your heart God wants you to do then you have to make the tough decision of deciding who you're going to follow. And trust me from experience you can listen to God now or you can listen later, but later comes with a price. If you find yourself in this position then you have to take the time to pray and seek guidance from Him he will show you what to say and do that your parents may understand.

There is one other person that we seem to want to please more than even our parents and this person seems to be the hardest to please of them all. OUR FRIENDS! Or people like to refer to as friends. But how many times have you went to a movie you didn't want to see, or went bowling which you can't stand, or said sure I'll go with you to your boyfriend's house party and you don't even like her boyfriend. All because you wanted to be cool, popular, or supportive in one way or another. When really you would have rather been doing your own thing at your house or out with your own boyfriend. And here's one news flash for those of you that are saying to yourself that this never happens to you, yow always do what you want. Then I challenge you to take a step outside yourself and see if you're the one that is being selfish while your selfless friends try and please you?

If you continue along the path of trying to please everyone else when do you actually get to live your own life? I read a quote once that said "On your tombstone it's not the two dates that are important it's the dash between them." What that means is the date you're born and the date you die are not as important as the life that you live between them. So make the most of your life, enjoy it, seek God in all that you do and He will direct your path. Please God not people.