Three sentences that hold the line without turning a request into a negotiation.
What to say when someone asks for more than you have
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Notes from the work
Short pieces on boundaries, burnout and the small practices that survive a bad week. Nothing here needs a subscription to read.
The difference between a boundary and an ultimatum
One is about what you will do. The other is about what they must. Most of us confuse them at exactly the wrong moment.
Rest is not a reward you earn at the end
Why the productivity logic you apply to your work is the same logic keeping you exhausted on Sundays.
The tiredness that sleep does not fix
If a good night and a fortnight off leave you exactly where you started, you are not short of rest.
A five-question check-in for the end of a hard week
Borrowed from my own Friday practice, and short enough that you will actually do it.
Ten minutes at the end of the day, done badly
The practice that survives a bad week is the one you were already doing badly on the good ones.