You always have to be willing to walk. Not that you will. You don't dangle it over a person's head.

You don't wield it like a weapon against them. You don't blackmail them, strong arm them,

manipulate them. None of that. You just have this internal aura of strength and confidence

and a willingness to walk when it doesn't align.

And that's hard.

You're going to lose relationships, but you have to maintain your dignity and self-respect.

One of the things that you'll often hear in self-development circles,

whether it's for romantic relationships, personal relationships,

or even professional relationships that you have is the need for establishing healthy boundaries.

And I wholeheartedly agree. But what I get frustrated with at times is that while everybody's

talking about the boundaries that you ought to set in your life, nobody really dives into what

those boundaries might actually look like. And so as men were left knowing that boundaries are

important, that they're healthy, that they will lead to long-lasting, personal, professional,

romantic, and platonic relationships. But we don't really know what it actually looks like. So today I wanted

to share with you eight boundaries that I have been working on and identifying over years,

but specifically honing them in over the past couple of months, as I think about the personal

and professional and romantic relationships that I have in my life and why this might be so

important. Now, as I go through these eight boundaries with you today, I want you to understand

that this is not an exhaustive list. This is not the list. This is not the boundaries that you

might set for yourself, but hopefully it gets your mind thinking about what an appropriate

set of boundaries would look like for you. You may not need

these exact boundaries. You might not even need eight. Maybe you need three. Maybe you need five.

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