3 months from now, you could have much more ease and joy...
Does this sound familiar??
You’re spending more than enough time with your family… but your family feels otherwise.
You focus on your business or work… after all, if it isn’t for the business or your work, you can’t support your family.
Then before you know it, your business/work has taken over your life. Maybe you’ve had a moment of clarity, maybe you haven’t… yet. The moment of clarity hits and you realise that if you didn’t do something, you are going to lose the most important things in your life, starting with your family.
Some people can see the trap they’ve fallen into and make their way out of it. Others get really caught up in their belief that they are the ONLY one that can do what they’re doing and to reduce that time and effort will have negative consequences.
I was part of the latter group and when I did start saying “no” to things, it was hard – REALLY hard. We are conditioned as children to please and to do what we are asked (told) to do. It was a lesson that I mostly learned really well when I was growing up and became a hard habit to break - saying “yes” to everything at the cost of myself. My health. My relationships. Me.
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Of course, it was the emergence of a health condition that stopped me in my tracks and made me reassess. I have been amazed at how much time I had when I made time a boundary and how much happier too.
You can set boundaries on just about anything.
Three months from now you could have boundaries on your finances, boundaries on your relationships, boundaries on your health and exercise.
And if you set boundaries now, without breaking the deals, you could make the three months before you start those things an amazing time.
“I can’t take that call right now.”
“I’m not working anymore today!”
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2 年Thanks for sharing this Michele. Learning how to set boundaries and say no to things was a huge learning for me. Even if it's for the smallest thing, it all matters. That muscle gets stronger with practice ????