09/17/2026
What if your fear of being “pushy” is quietly costing you opportunities?
Maybe you’ve watched someone follow up repeatedly and thought, I never want to be that person.
So when it’s your turn to follow up, you hesitate.
You tell yourself, If they’re interested, they’ll get back to me.
And you leave the conversation there.
But what if your judgment of someone else’s behavior has quietly become a rule about what you are allowed to do?
It can happen with more than follow-up.
You don’t want to appear arrogant, so you downplay your accomplishments.
You don’t want to seem attention-seeking, so you hold back from being visible.
You don’t want to pressure anyone, so you avoid making the invitation.
There’s an important distinction here:
You can dislike how someone else does something without deciding you can’t do it your way.
You can follow up with warmth.
You can sell without pressure.
You can talk about your success without arrogance.
You can be visible without performing.
Sometimes the behaviors you judge most strongly in others reveal something important about the rules you’ve created for yourself.
What if those rules are keeping you—and your business—smaller than you need to be?
I explore this more deeply in my latest blog post, What If the Behavior You Judge in Others Is Keeping Your Business Small? https://www.suzannelongstreet.com/blog-1-copy-1-2/judgment-keeping-your-business-small