Nov 15, 2021
The holiday season is fast approaching, friends! You know, the busy season where we overperform, try to make everything perfect and say yes to all the things. But, what would the holidays look like if we didn’t run around trying to make others happy all the time?
I’m so excited to have my friend and prolific author, Karen Ehman, back on the show again this week. We sit down to talk about Karen’s new book When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable and how to live out your own priorities despite what others think. Plus, Karen shares ways that we can cultivate strategies for knowing when to say yes and how to say no to ultimately break the pattern of people pleasing and confidently live our lives.
This one is super practical, with grace-filled advice, and I think it will resonate with so many of us during this busy season.
Listen in to hear more about:
Favorite quotes:
1. As Christians, we want to be
loving and helpful. We want to serve, we want to put other people
before ourselves and consider others as better than ourselves. We
want to do all of that. But when we cross the line and we're doing
it because someone expects us to or we're trying to get in their
good graces, now we are doing the right things for the wrong
reasons.
2. I
realized after the first 10 years of parenting that I don't have to
do every single tradition, every single year, in order to make fun
memories for my kids.
3. Other people's happiness is not my assignment. It's God's
assignment to bring people joy. It's not my assignment to bring
them temporary happiness.
4. If God is really calling you to do something, don't fail
to do it because you're afraid that somebody won't approve. You
don't need their permission.
In this episode I answer this question:
1.When you’re working with your
business coaching clients, what habits or beliefs are the ones that
make some of them unable to succeed? (40:45)
Great things we discussed:
1. Karen
Ehman
2.
When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable
3. Smooth Deep Brown
Noise
4.
Only Murders in the Building
5. The Hidden Art Of
Homemaking
6. Vegetable pods
7. Picture This
8. The Story I’ll Tell
9. Invasion
10. Standing Strong
Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :)
xo,
Alli
www.alliworthington.com/karenehman2/