It’s so natural to want to be liked that it’s tempting to try to please everyone all the time. But that’s an impossible mission. We can’t even be sure what others want from us, so trying to figure out how to make everyone around us happy is a guessing game. When we’re authentically in alignment with how we really feel, it puts others at ease because they know we’re not expecting them to sacrifice their own needs and desires to please us. In other words, we don’t expect them to be inauthentic. While people pleasing creates expectations, authenticity promotes…

Generosity.