Boundaries allow us to focus on what matters most.

I love this photo. This eatery is obviously clear about its boundaries and confident enough about their business to make them explicit.

Every time I see this image, I wonder about how each one of us establishes our boundaries.

  • How do we decide where to draw the line?
  • How well do we hold the boundaries we set?
  • How rigid or flexible are our boundaries?
  • What does it mean for us to say “no”?

This Harvard Business Review article, “No” is the New “Yes”: Four Practices to Reprioritize Your Life, offers four practices or tactics to “reprioritize your life”.

But saying “no” isn’t easy.

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crossroads

Recently I was telling a friend that I find myself repeatedly visiting a particular decision. Why do I keep returning to this crossroad?

My friend, a fellow coach, asked me: Where do you want to go? More »


Anything can be fulfilling or everything can be meaningless. As the author says in The World is Made of Stories, human beings are story-making creatures. We make stories out of everything. Without our stories and our interpretations, things just are. And there’s nothing like first-hand experience for such a concept really sink in. More »