Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you try and make everyone happy and almost lose your balance knowing that you can never do it?

It is an impossible thing to achieve.

You can attempt it many times, run yourself ragged,

get exhausted, and someone out there is always just going to be disappointed. I've got to tell you,

I find that in life this is unavoidable, which is why it's so important to stay centered and true to

you. So for example, I remember when I was

in my corporate job, I always like to generally work in silence, even if I'm at home where I might

put on some classical music, anything without words, or I like to listen to a Spotify kind of

focus playlist that's just, I mean, really like lo-fi, you know,

not distracting. But I had a co-worker who would like to really put the music up because she

said it would help her focus and she would like to play music and it would just kind of like

blare from her computer. And I'd always kind of move away or find like a conference

room or move to a beanbag because I couldn't work with that and it didn't mean that I was right

or she was right or I was wrong or she was wrong. We just had very different needs. So I had to do

what's right for me and she has to do what's right for her with respect.

I have a fable for you about this today if you're like me a recovering pleaser who of course

wants to make everyone happy but you know that really at your core that's not possible.

It's called the father and his two daughters. A man had two daughters, the one married to a

gardener and the other to a tile maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the

gardener and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, all things are prospering with me, and I have only

one wish that there may be a heavy fall of rain in order that the plants may be well watered.

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