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Raised your standards.

Raised your standards.

What does it feel like when I say that?

Raise your standards.

Someone said this to me once and I actually felt immediately defensive. I was like, my standards are high. What are you talking about? There's just a problem

with this person. How adorable I was. It's interesting. I was talking to a friend of mine.

This is a maybe gosh, four or five years ago. I was speaking to a friend of mine. This is a maybe gosh, four or five years ago.

I was speaking to a friend of mine who's very direct, which I appreciate. And I said to her,

you know, I don't have the support I want in my life with my team. There are a couple of people

who I just felt kept dropping the ball. I had to really supervise their work. When they

were making mistakes, I wasn't sure if I was being too hardcore or if they just weren't showing up in the way that was

required. And she said to me, Susie, raise your standards. You're getting the level of support

that you believe you deserve. And that was a holy shit moment for me because I knew she was right. I knew that I was

tolerating and putting up with mediocre work because I'm someone who loves to give and who

loves to please, not someone who likes to criticize others, not someone that likes to ask too much

as a people pleaser. But she was right. Raise your standards. I want to tell you an area in my life

where I don't have any problems with this, which embarrasses my husband sometimes. But to me,

I feel like it's perfectly fair and reasonable.

If we are staying somewhere that's considered, you know, five star, that's a splurge for us,

that's a really, really lovely location or say hotel, I expect the service and amenities to be wonderful and available. So recently when we went to the French Riviera, we stayed on a lovely beachfront

resorts. It was a spludge. It was a really, really lovely place to say. And as we got there,

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