Power Session #7: Boundaries Pt. 1

How to set healthy boundaries without confusing them for resentment fueled barriers.

This is your weekly power session—a quick and tactical coaching session inspired by real client conversations that you can access whenever, wherever you need it.

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The Situation

Week after week, you give it your all.

You push yourself to deliver excellent work, make yourself available to your team, respond to messages so you’re not a bottle neck, and put in extra hours to make sure nothing slips through the cracks.

You leave it all on the field with the promise of a weekend to unplug, catch up on rest (and life), and start the next week refreshed. But, somehow, the weekend never seems to come.

Like clockwork, you wrap up on Friday leaving everything in a good place so you can pick up where you left off come Monday. By Saturday or Sunday, you have an email from the CEO or your manager sharing an idea and a “quick ask” to pull a report, look into a technical problem, or whip up version of something by Monday.

Ugh. Why does this keep happening? You deserve a weekend. You worked hard enough. When will you actually get a break?

First the anger sets in. Then maybe that impulse to just scream, “stop!” But it’s your boss and what choice do you have? You can’t actually say “no”, can you?