Adjust Your Nice-O-Meter

"I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody."

Herbert Bayard Swope

In a recent Sunday message, Scott differentiated between "nice" and "loving" - I thought it was a great distinction. For influencers who are tempted to always be "nice", who are especially gifted at creating rapport between people and focus almost exclusively on relationships - there is a downside. These folks often shy away from addressing problems, handling conflict and making tough calls because others will express displeasure. I suppose it is good to be nice to a point, but there are limitations that often lead us to actually fail to love other well when we care more about what they think of us than doing the right and good and true thing.

Could this be you? Are you a people pleasure? How could you adjust your nice-o-meter?