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How to stop being nice (and why)

Well Balanced

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The Only Relationship That You Have to Be With 24 Hours a Day

I love sharing the idea that you are the only person that you have to be with 24 hours a day. So all of those minor indignities that we suffer from this posture of niceness, they're like a thousand little paper cuts that we eventually start bleeding out from. For instance, my eight year old came home to day an's talking about a friend of hers that she doesn't really want to be friends with any more because of their behavior. And so the advice that i gave her was likewell, you need to be a friend to yourself first and be kind to yourself. You don't need to solve this right now.

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