Bite‑sized knowledgeto upgrade
your career
to upgrade
your career
Ideas from books, articles & podcasts.
Examine your rights and needs
- Once you identify your rights and choose to believe in them, you’ll find honoring them easier. For example, I have a right to be treated with respect.
- Check-in with your body (heart rate, sweating, tightness in the chest, clenched fists) to understand what you can handle and where the boundary should be drawn.
Identify 10 important values. Then narrow that list to three. To understand if you have strong and healthy boundaries, reflect on how often those 3 are challenged.
16
STASHED IN:
1.95K
published ideas from this article:
MORE IDEAS FROM THE SAME ARTICLE
- Watch for cues. Possible hints someone might want more space: avoiding eye contact, limited conversation response, turning away or sideways.
- Be inclusive of neurodiverse behaviors. These are people who live with autism, are on the spectrum, or who have other deve...
How to draw your lines with confidence.
- Be assertive. Assertive language is clear and non-negotiable, without blaming or threatening the receiver. Be assertive using "I statements."
- Learn to say no. You can say no without an explanation and without providing any e...
The word “boundary” can leave the impression of separation.
But boundaries are actually connecting points since they provide healthy rules for navigating relationships, intimate or professional.
- Boundaries improve our relationships and self-esteem. They protect relationships from becoming unsafe.
- Boundaries can be flexible. It’s good to think about them occasionally and reassess them.
- Boundaries allow us to conserve our emotional energy. Without ...
Our boundaries are shaped by
- our heritage or culture
- the region we live in or come from
- whether we’re introverted, extroverted, or somewhere in between
- our life experiences
- our family dynamics
MORE LIKE THIS
- you feel like people take advantage of you or use your emotions for their own gain.
- you feel like you’re constantly having to “save” people close to you and fix their problems all the time.
- you find yourself sucked into pointless fighting or debating regularly.
- you fi...
48
STASHED IN:
3.64K
10
STASHED IN:
28
published 2 ideas
- Know that you have a right to personal boundaries.
- Recognize that other people's needs and feelings are not more important than your own.
- Learn to say no.
- Identify the actions and behaviors that you find unacceptable.
- Trust and believe in yourself.
18
STASHED IN:
3.01K
published 1 ideas
❤️ Brainstash Inc.