Good morning gorgeous. I hope you're all doing fantastic. I am your host Dr. Michelle Daff and you are listening to a Feminine Impression

podcast. Today we're continuing our series beauty and

boundaries and discussing boundaries in the workplace. This is one of the areas

where a lot of us struggle the most with setting and maintaining boundaries, learning to say no, and cultivating

appropriate relationships. So I want you to go ahead, take a deep breath breath because I know that when it comes to work

it can be a stressful topic in it of itself and we have a lot of frustrations but

we're going to talk today just about some ways that you can work through them.

Relax, get something a drink, get something a right with, and let's talk about this.

So why are boundaries in the workplace so important?

When we go to our job, wherever you work, you want to be productive.

You want to be a person who is a great employee who enjoys her work and one who knows how to set boundaries and do what serves you and what you are being paid to do.

It also helps you to remain professional. When you're in a work

environment no matter what kind of work you do, you're representing a company, even

if that company is yourself and you want to have a certain standard on the way that you behave and the way that you conduct your business.

It's also important to have boundaries for social relationships.

There is so much drama that happens at work that we just do not have time for and can

truly start to impact our personal lives. We also want to have boundaries with

maintaining our time and our energy so that we have what it takes to live the other parts of our lives.

So that's why it's so important for you to consider whether or not you have boundaries in the workplace.

Think about how stressed you are,

if you have a lot of resentment about people at work,

or resentment about things you're being asked to do,

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