The Art Of Setting Boundaries
When you purchase a real estate property you purchase it within some physical boundaries that have been laid out by the designers of the plot. And it is with that same clarity that you need to set boundaries for your own life.
In the design of your life it is important to consider those things that you will allow in your life, as well as those things that you will not allow. By ascertaining these things early in your life, confusion will have no hold on the decision making processes that you are faced with on a regular basis.
When in business you too need to determine the boundaries within which you will conduct your business, whether it be the terms and conditions of doing business, the way you collect payments, the way you deliver your product and services, the way you deal with complaints or even the way you conduct customer service.
On the flip side, you also need to have a clear understanding of what business transactions you will not undertake. Sometimes by defining what you won’t do will in fact be the most liberating. You are then free with great clarity to pursue the other 99% of business that is awaiting you, and in that way you will never find yourself in a vulnerable situation where you are being tripped up, and even possibly destroyed by the 1% that you should have rejected in the first place.
For it only takes a single straw to break the camel’s back. So deal with the straw at the start of business and burn it by the power of identification, clear communication and boundary setting.
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