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Quit Trying to Be Liked. Be Respected Instead. | Jim Rohn Motivation
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Most people walk through the world trying to be liked. Uploaded 21-05-26 They measure every word before they say it. Smile when they don't mean it. Say yes when their gut is screaming no. By the time they go to bed, they're exhausted from the performance of being agreeable. What they don't see: being liked and being respected aren't the same thing. They're not even close. Liked is rented — paid for daily with smiles and silence. Respect is earned — built once, and it lasts. You can spend a lifetime chasing the...
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There are two kinds of people walking through the world today. The first kind spends every waking hour trying to be liked. They measure every word before they say it. They smile when they don't mean it.
They go along with things they don't believe in. They say yes when their gut is screaming no. By the time they go to bed at night, they're exhausted from the performance of being agreeable. The second kind of person stopped chasing that a long time ago.
They decided they would rather be respected than liked. And here's what they figured out. Those two things, being liked and being respected, are not the same thing. They are not even close.
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