Diagnosis
Likability is a terrible mission. You will sell the truth to buy a feeling that expires by Thursday. Respect outlasts being liked. You already know this. You just do not want the bill.
Protocol
- 1Practice one clean no without a 4-paragraph apology.
- 2Notice whose approval you are shopping for. Name them. That is the idol.
- 3Replace 'hope they get it' with a direct sentence.
The standard: One honest no. One honest yes. No performance around either.
“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? … If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10