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WORK-LIFE-BALANCE5 MIN READ

Walk the Boundary Leak

Diagnose and repair a boundary leak with an urgency test, a narrow response, and a future rule.

Boundary leak A director texts Morgan during dinner about a pricing deck due tomorrow morning. The third leak this month means the response will teach the system what the boundary means. Boundary repair path Diagnose, narrow, repair Do not decide from guilt. First test urgency, then keep any exception as narrow as possible, then set a future rule. Reflex Answer everything or ignore everything. The boundary can flex for true urgency without becoming always-on availability. A healthy boundary is flexible by rule, not by guilt. 01 Diagnose 02 Narrow 03 Repair First fork The director says the deck is needed…

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