Tag: boundaries
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Burnout
I used to love the holiday season. When I was little, my mom and I would drive up and down the streets looking for the most festively-decorated houses, shouting, “Oooh!” every time we would see one that was particularly spectacular. We would decorate the tree with a variety of ornaments (as a violin teacher, she…
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The Power of No
I’ve always had a hard time saying no. Call it social conditioning, the patriarchy, people-pleasing, what-have-you… all I can say is that when someone asks me to do something, my knee-jerk reaction is to say yes. Whether or not I actually want to do it. At the beginning of my career, the ability to say…