I can still remember the exact moment when I got real with myself. I realized that I couldn’t do it alone.

I reached out to my friend, Sarah, and asked her to help keep me accountable.

How often have you bent over backwards for a client? Pushed yourself to burnout to make someone else happy? How often have you sacrificed your boundaries to make someone else happy because you believe their needs are greater than yours?

Learning that first and foremost you need to figure out what your boundaries are and then move into a place of honouring and respecting them yourself. If you don’t respect your boundaries first, no one else can.

More often than not we try to run away from the uncomfortable feelings because, well, they’re uncomfortable. Sitting in the discomfort of nervousness or embarrassment is never fun. But it’s important to fully feel the emotion so that you can successfully move on from it.

I’ve spent the past 20 years learning from my own mistakes to discover the best way to communicate change with your clients. And trust me, it’s not as uncomfortable as you might think it is.

There was a time that I used to think that the only answer to a question was “yes”. I would always feel obligated to say “yes” to everything. I thought it was the “nice” and “polite” thing to do, especially when it came to business.