The topic of boundaries is coming up a lot in my conversations – I MEAN A LOT. The need for setting boundaries is everywhere.
Boundaries at work, with clients, with spouses and partners with children and with friends. We know they are important, yet many of us struggle to create them. Deep in our beings, we believe if we say No, we will be rejected. Or judged. Or labeled. Or not loved. Not sought after. Or the worst of the worst, we fear we’ll be called the other B WORD. Our mental chatter takes over and sounds something like this:
If I say I can’t meet the deadline, she/he won’t be my client. If I say No, she/he/they won’t like me or will move on to someone else. If I say No, my child will rebel. If I say No, I won’t be promoted. Who am I to have boundaries, anyway?
Who are you not to have boundaries.
It’s time to let the old chatter go. There isn’t room for it in our new world. So much is being asked of us and boundaries are key. Just like essential workers have become our lifeline, boundaries are essential to our personal well being and enable us to thrive.
If you find yourself at your wit’s end without reserve in your tank, perhaps, you’re saying YES to clients when they don’t respect your schedule, or to your child because he/she didn’t get to graduate, or to friends who have a different risk factor around social distancing, or allowing others to make racist comments in your presence, or saying YES to working 14 hour days or letting your adult children ‘rule the roost’ now they are back at home.
We can’t always have things the way we want them, especially now. Saying YES is a good thing but not all the time. Freedom begins with saying NO. Boundaries allow us to have more room for ourselves and give us the freedom we crave and yearn for.
What one boundary will you set today?
My new Master Class, Rules for a Liberating Life is next Tuesday at 11am Pacific/1pm Central/2pm Eastern!
New Rules for a Liberating Life, is a 90 minute workshop where we will walk through The New Rules individually. This program is especially designed to help move out of old thinking and behaving and free you up. I will give you exercises and action steps to support moving into the most confident version of yourself. We will end with a live Q + A.
By the end of the class, you will learn to let go of the shouldas, manage perfectionism and self-doubt (and we all have it) and open up to more energy to create what you want in this new world.
New Rules to Live a Liberated Life will help you:
Feel AUTHENTIC and more grounded than ever before.
Feel you’re in the DRIVER’S SEAT of your life.
Feel RELIEF because you no longer care so much about what others think.
KNOW who and what matters in your life.
Have MORE ENERGY for yourself.
I am offering a SPECIAL BONUS for one lucky person who signs up for the class – a one hour coaching call with me. If you’ve wanted to work with me for some time but haven’t gotten around to it – here is your chance! I will draw a name from the list of attendees during the live masterclass.
