Five Step Plan to Your Laid Off Life: Step 2! Check Those Boundaries
Five-Step Plan to Your Laid Off Life
Step 2: CREATE BOUNDARIES.
At some point, you STOP and other people begin. Knowing what is your business and under your watch is crucial to creating any semblance of a satisfying life and career success. In fact, if you stayed in your own business close to 100% of the time, it would be jet fuel for your job search, your career and your daily happiness.
Here’s what you gotta do: Keep to your own business and stay out of other people’s. Notice when you start feeling a little yucky, and little “off” and you will find that you’ve entered someone else’s business — you are managing your sig other’s business by trying to persuade her/him to work overtime or in your mom’s business by feeling frustrated that your mom won’t do this or be that.
There are ONLY three kinds of business: (1) Your business; (2) Other people’s business; and (3) God’s business (you don’t have to be into the word/concept God — you could substitute “reality” or “universe”).
When you begin to feel emotional discomfort or anxiety about anything, ask yourself: Whose business am I in?
HINT: Because the only business that you can change or control is your own, this is where you can do work and make progress. Sticking to your business is jet fuel for your personal life, your happiness and DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY your career.
Enjoy Step 2 — notice for the next few days when you are feeling “off” and then think, whose business am I in? It will set you right… UNTIL we get to STEP 3 on Monday.
Besos!
Laurie
