If you always bend over backwards for others and pitch in even if no one asks for your help, you are deep in the throes of being way too nice.  Here are five warning signs you are being too nice for your own good:

1. A friend asks you to drive out of your way to see them even though they’ve never once gone out of their way for you.
2. A friend or colleague constantly wants to “pick your brain” for free but when you ask for advice, they continually ignore you.
3. You’ve hired a consultant to work with you on a project and while they were supposed to help lighten your load, you find yourself doing the lion’s share of the work because their work is mediocre at best.
4. You finally get the courage to ask your boss for a promotion or raise and they inform you they’ve decided to promote someone else because they are more confident and you seem more like a worker bee.
5. Someone has stolen one of your ideas and is now using it to make money.   Rather than call them out for screwing you over,  you congratulate them on their success and wish them well.

If you can relate to all or a few of these points, then you are in need of a nice makeover. Time to get a little bitch in your life so you can finally get all the things you’ve always wanted.  I’m not saying it’s good to be mean to people all the time, but if you feel someone is taking advantage of your good nature,  then feel free to be a bitch on wheels.  You have my permission — a formerly rehabilitated nice person who is now a bitch at heart.