Quotes About Boundaries

Sa?l?kl? öfkeye verilebilecek güzel bir örnek, bir ?ekilde sayg?s?zl?k ya da taciz içeren bir olay meydana geldi?inde, öfkenin gelip, "Bu do?ru de?il," demesidir. Öfke bunun icin vard?r - yani gerekli olan s?n?rlar? yaratmak için.

If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.

In time, I was able to learn that as long as I could respect and love myself, I wouldn't settle for less from others.

Worse, when a woman insists on playing the role of messiah, she often ends up being pulled into her boyfriend's problems instead of pulling him out of them.

Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

When someone takes your time, it doesn't cost them anything, but it costs you everything.

If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours. Most of what we think we have to do, we don't have to do at all. It's a choice, and often it's a poor one.

In almost every situation, the expectation of an immediate response is an unreasonable expectation. Yet with more and more real-time communication tools creeping into daily work—especially instant-messaging tools and group chat—the expectation of an immediate response has become the new normal.

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that. And two more: Enough already.

If it's constantly crazy at work, we have two words for you: Fuck that.

Stress never stops at the border of work, either. It bleeds into life. It infects your relationships with your friends, your family, your kids.

The same thing is true with weekday nights. If work can claim hours after 5:00 p.m., then life should be able to claim hours before 5:00 p.m. Balance, remember. Give and take.

What's worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great "work ethic" because they're always around, always available, always working. That's a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who's overworked.

Workaholism is a contagious disease.

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

Mientras haya clientes a los que les encante lo que hacemos, estamos dispuestos a perder otros. Esta es nuestra raya en la arena.

Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more. Workaholics

el auténtico enemigo en un ambiente de trabajo a distancia de éxito es el exceso, no el déficit de trabajo.

It's so easy to say yes. Yes to another feature, yes to an overly optimistic deadline, yes to a mediocre design. Soon, the stack of things you've said yes to grows so tall you can't even see the things you should really be doing. Start getting into the habit of saying no—even to many of your best ideas. Use the power of no to get your priorities straight. You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

If work is all-consuming, the worker is far more likely to burn out. This is true even if the person loves what he does. Perhaps especially if he loves what he does, since it won't seem like a problem until it's too late.

Don't be afraid to cut people out of your life if they are causing you pain

Ask yourself where you're complicit in other people's stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don't, don't. You're not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you'll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

know about me via legal means. But you cannot demand that I provide you with it. And if you press,