Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

It's Not Your Job to Please Everyone

10 May 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "It's Not Your Job to Please Everyone" containing a monologue or personal narrative recorded in May 2025. The speaker discusses relationship dynamics, personal growth, and the challenges of changing oneself despite a partner's discomfort, focusing on themes of self-acceptance and independence.

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It was the first time in our relationship that he didn't like something and I kept doing it. So you didn't please him. I didn't please him for the first time ever in my life. Wow. I was like, this is not about how you feel about me changing. This is about how I feel about me changing. And I just kept going. The interesting thing is about three months later, I'm still on fire, I'm still doing all the things. He was like, okay, I want to go. I want to know what this is all about. I want to see. You got past needing to please him and you kept going and you hurt his feelings probably a lot. Yes. And upset him. Made him very uncomfortable. comfortable. This is another question I get is women are like, I want to change or I want to build my business and my partner hates it. It's like, well, yeah, because you're changing and now they're afraid that you're going to not love them anymore, right? Because you're growing and you're changing. What if you don't need them? You know, we're all like little precious snowflakes at our core. So, yeah, I just kept going.