subject: Service Scheduling Software - Refine Your Work Life Balance By Setting Healthy Limitations [print this page] Setting healthy boundaries is important for a healthy work life balance. That sounds true, but what does it mean? What do healthy boundaries look like, and how can you know exactly where and how to set them?
Simply because most owners want their businesses to be accessible and to provide excellent service, they are naturally conservative in setting this sort of boundary. After all, they wish to say, "Welcome" to prospective clients and partners, not "Keep Out." As a result, they set limitations at the last possible point to keep invaders at bay.
After working inside this boundary for a while, it is natural to become unbalanced, impatient, cranky, even resentful. It is uncomfortable within this boundary, and it feels as though this is the fault of those pushy clients, colleagues, and vendors out there. After all, if it weren't for THEM, you'd be out within the fresh air.
But wait -- a client isn't an invader. A vendor isn't a spy. A company is not a castle on a hill, placed there for strategic advantage against enemy forces. Let's take a big breath and take one more look at this company of setting limitations.
Maintaining these healthy boundaries feels entirely different, too. With what pride of ownership and delight within the scope of our pasture we walk the fence line. How pleasing it's to oil the latches on the gates, to replace broken posts, to trim the hedges.
Check in with your boundaries this week. First, observe what constitute the fence posts and gates in your company. Are they the hours that you work? The rates you charge? The terms you offer for special services? Get familiar with the structural elements you are able to use to build your beautiful fence and gate.
When you've identified those elements, look at where you've set them. Do your rates provide you with space to complete your best work? Do your working arrangements provide you with breathing space? Examine your boundaries, and notice if they're giving you space to live and to complete your best work or cramping your style. Experiment with moving your boundaries out a bit, not to keep your clients away, but to produce a bigger space from which you are able to serve them wholeheartedly and well, maintaining a healthy work life balance.
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