Where Do Your Professional Boundaries Lie?

Adjusting your professional boundaries is always going to be a work in progress. Sometimes we suddenly realise we are being leeched left, right and centre. I know that for me, when I want to throw my toys out of my pram and run away from all of it, I actually need to reel lots of things in, rather than jump out of the boat entirely….

And then I must sit tight. I must sit tight and reexamine all aspects of my life and pull my boundaries closer. I need to explore whether it is my professional or my personal life that is running unchecked, whether it is workload or personal commitments that have pulled my line too taut. Whether I am at the snapping point because my task list is really too diverse or whether I am starting from an undernourished place in myself to begin with and thus everything else seems too big to deal with because I have nothing left to give….
And, to top it all, I need to make the space to do this examination, at the very time I feel like I have no space anyhow!!!
And, I have to do this. I have to make the space to do the examination because, in the long run, readjusting these boundaries and behaviours will, in the long run, give me all the space I need. I have to see protecting myself by resetting my Boindaries as an investment  I need to do this rigorously!

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