Well, this is something I dealt with a lot in the last ten years. It took me a really really long time, but the end result is I do less for those who fail to recognize my efforts. I am not looking for anyone to be gushing over me and how wonderful I am. A nice thank you is plenty. But, even more than that I don’t want to be told I never do enough, when I do things all the time and think about others all the time. Slap me in the face like that, and now I very quickly get to not giving too much of a damn about helping that person out.
I also have started to make my schedule the priority, and fit everyone else in if they do. If they don’t too bad. It’s not like I am hard and fast about it. If the other person wants to work together, if there is give and take and appreciation I will be flexible, but if the other person is rigid and demanding, that is what they get back from me now.
You get what you give. The unnappreciative people in our lives need to learn that.