Handling Criticism

Many people let negative words or other people’s opinions totally ruin their lives. They live to please other people and honestly think that they can be happy by trying to keep everyone else happy. They don’t want anybody to say a negative word about them.

That’s simply impossible. You have to accept the fact that not everybody is going to like you, not everybody is going to accept you, and you certainly cannot keep everybody happy. Some people will find fault, no matter what you do. You can be there for them a thousand times in a row, but they will remind you repeatedly of that one time when you couldn’t show up. Life is too short to try to keep people like that happy.

Yes, we should be kind and loving, but don’t spend too much time trying to please somebody who is impossible to please. Until they deal with their own issues on the inside, they’re not going to be happy. Say, “I’m not going to play up to them. I’m not going to try to keep them happy, because I know no matter what I do or don’t do, a month later, they’re going to be running me down.” Tremendous freedom results when you accept the fact that not everybody is going to like you.