Boundaries

You’ve seen me write about various topics worth reflecting on before beginning a job search:

- Risk (what I also like to affectionately refer to as Recklessness)
- Service
- Sacrifice
- Dignity
- and the latest, Boundaries

It’s amazing what moving to a new place can do for the mind. I sat down to dig into some of my notes from past client work. I’ve looked through these hundreds of times, but one theme leaped off the pages in a way that I’d never noticed before.

Boundaries being violated. Boundaries being nonexistent. With some clients, there were personal boundaries that had been in place before joining a new company or taking on a new assignment or promotion. But a new supervisor, or a new team, or a new set of circumstances tested those boundaries in such a way that they ultimately fell apart.

What are your boundaries? Are your boundaries respected by your supervisor, colleagues, and clients? Do you respect your own boundaries?

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