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What didn’t work about telling people that you weren’t available at certain times? I’ve had this feeling as well, but in practice I find that people either resp
by harlanji 6y ago
What didn’t work about telling people that you weren’t available at certain times? I’ve had this feeling as well, but in practice I find that people either respect my boundary or try to get a reason and then argue with the reason—the latter type now just send me the signal that I don’t want to depend on people like this anymore and that I should make space for new people. Asking more to trigger reflection than for an answer, rhetorically I think that’d be called. Best wishes. (Ps. It’s true that I’m homeless, if you check my history, and I don’t feel that’s an indication of having boundaries not being sustainable, I think I just had a lot of old garbage from being weak that lead me here but I’m more likely to overcome it with this approach, even if it’s slower).
- chrisgd 6y agoI was in finance. Telling a senior level person about needing my own time jeopardizes my bonus. Which was 50% of my total comp