Declare Your Independence: 7 Tips to Get Freedom from People-Pleasing

Tell me if this sounds familiar:

You are swamped with work when a colleague comes and asks for your help. You say yes. Or, you go out with a friend and decide to see a movie. You would like to see a thriller but she loves romantic comedies. You say yes even though you think they are very cheesy and don’t really like them. Your cousin is moving and asked for your help. You had plans already so you tell him you can’t do it. But, then you felt so guilty about refusing that you called him back and t...