Without boundaries, you miss out on better opportunities, more meaningful relationships, and confidence. Are you experiencing any of these 5 situations? Of course, I won't leave you hanging. I'll get you started on solving your lack of boundaries with a quick exercise at the end.

Setting boundaries is crucial for better opportunities, relationships, and confidence. Learn to set boundaries with a quick exercise provided in this article.

5 Mistakes You Make Without Boundaries

Some strangers walk among us that never get stressed out. (I know... I'm jealous, too.) What are the secrets that keep them resilient to stress and the chaos around them? What do they have that you and I don't? Listen to find out the secret to their stress-free bliss.

Discover the secrets of stress-free strangers and how they stay resilient in chaos in this informative audio clip.

Secrets Of The Never Stressed

You could stress about how stressed out you are. Or, you could pretend your stress is non-existent. Learn how to become a carefree person and live more in the moment. Honestly, most people already fake it till they make it. Why not do that with your stress?

Learn to become carefree and fake it till you make it with stress to live in the moment.

How To Pretend Your Stress Doesn't Exist

Some days it seems like your life is so hard, while others' lives seem easy or effortless. How did you manage to board the struggle bus, while they zip by on the bullet train? Find out if you have one (or more) of these five habits that could be making your life a daily uphill climb.

Identify 5 habits that make life harder than it needs to be, and learn how to avoid them in order to stop struggling.

Why Is Your Life So Hard?

Sometimes it seems like people hate our boundaries or we just feel difficult when enforcing them. Let's talk about what people really think about your boundaries, what to do if people don't like your boundaries, and the BIGGEST mistake people make when enforcing their boundaries. Before we are done, you will create a step-by-step plan to start enforcing your boundaries with confidence.

Learn how to enforce your boundaries confidently by understanding what people really think about them and avoiding common mistakes in this step-by-step guide.

Why Is It So Hard To Enforce Boundaries?

Boundaries help you show up as you want to show up and be who you want to be – rather than allowing other people to determine those things for you. Did you know that people see boundaries as a sign of strength and intelligence? They tell people you know who you are and what you want.

Boundaries empower you to be yourself, indicating strength and intelligence, by preventing others from determining who you are and what you want.

The Truth About Your Boundaries

Does complaining reflect a deeper unhappiness with yourself? Complaining can serve a useful purpose, but when you chronically complain you are likely not taking responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, and behavior. You also become the creator of high stress and feelings of overwhelm. Find out what your complaining actually means and what you should do instead.

Chronic complaining reflects an unhappiness with oneself, leading to stress and overwhelm, and suggests a need to take responsibility for thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Complaining: Sign Of Deeper Unhappiness?

You may think having strong boundaries isn't any big deal, but what your unhealthy and/or lack of boundaries tell others is a story you may not like. Find out the message your unhealthy boundaries are sending because it might help you discover what has kept life exhausting and frustrating.

Unhealthy or nonexistent boundaries can send a negative message, leading to an exhausting and frustrating life; understand their impact.

What Your Unhealthy Boundaries Confess

There is a cognitive array of processes that aren't talked about much that make up your psychological immune system. This system occurs when it senses you need to be protected from something bad. Learn how you can wield yourself to protect yourself from stress, overwhelm, and burnout.

Discover how to tap into your psychological immune system, a set of unexplored cognitive processes, to shield yourself from stress, overwhelm, and burnout.

Do You This Natural Buffer To Negativity

You are probably familiar with the saying, "Under promise and overdeliver." Overdelivering has a darker, overwhelming side that many of us think is perfectly normal. Is overdelivering what's killing your performance and keeping you from the success you want?

Overdelivering may be hindering success and performance, despite being considered normal, according to the concept of "Under promise and overdeliver."

What Overdelivering Really Costs You

Use these four ideas to make your anxiety and stress work for you, rather than against you.

Learn to harness anxiety and stress as tools for personal growth and success.

Make Anxiety Work For You

Most people operate with the wrong definition of perfectionism, so they miss the signs and symptoms. Also, many confuse the traits of being a perfectionist and think of themselves as high achievers. I am sharing 10 traits of a perfectionist and how they differ from a high achiever.

Learn the difference between perfectionism and high achievers through 10 traits outlined in this article.

What Is Perfectionism?

These five stress relief techniques are proven to work - no matter what life throws your way. If you are burned out, stressed out, anxious, or overwhelmed, keep these in your back pocket to help you in a pinch.

5 proven stress relief techniques to keep in your back pocket for times of burnout, anxiety, stress, or overwhelm.

5 Tips For Stress Relief In A Pinch

Is it possible that the stress in your life comes from a lack of boundaries? Boundaries aren’t just about learning to say no. Find out how boundaries can clear the obstacles that are getting in your way personally and professionally.

Setting boundaries can alleviate stress and remove obstacles in personal and professional life beyond just saying "no."

Acknowledge You Need Boundaries

Being a perfectionist is exhausting, frustrating, disappointing, and often feels unappreciated. These are the surface-level challenges for a perfectionist. I will share what I believe are the three core challenges a perfectionist faces that set the foundation for many other challenges to spring up.

Perfectionism is exhausting and frustrating with three core challenges that set the foundation for other issues.

Challenges Perfectionists Face

For the ambitious and high-achieving it can be tough to want to do all of the things while keeping your stress levels in check. Stress, frustration, and overwhelm can take over when "go-getters" go after too much. Here are three strategies to keep you reaching for the stars while keeping an eye on your mental health.

"High achievers can manage stress with 3 strategies to reach their goals while keeping an eye on their mental health."

Ambition Without Stress And Overwhelm?

Perfectionism may not go away entirely, but there are steps you can take to manage perfectionist tendencies. I am sharing the seven steps I took to get my perfectionism under control so that my stress and anxiety could be managed, too.

Manage perfectionism with seven steps to reduce stress and anxiety.

Solutions To Reduce Perfectionism

Handling emotionally charged situations when you are burned out is hard. Here are five strategies that help you defuse a stressful situation while maintaining your sanity.

The text suggests five strategies to handle emotionally charged situations and defuse stress when feeling burned out, preserving one's sanity.

Navigating Emotional Minefields

In the real world, people would treat us with respect and honor our boundaries. Learn how to enforce your boundaries with confidence and handle those who disrespect and/or ignore your needs. Quick hint: The people who are most troubled by your boundaries are the people who benefitted the most from you not having any.

Learn to enforce your boundaries with confidence and handle those who disrespect them, as those who benefit from your lack of boundaries will be the most troubled.

Enforcing Boundaries & Consequences

Your boundaries - or even no boundaries - teach people how you expect to be treated. Learn to create boundaries that will teach people to treat you with respect, kindness, and attentiveness. Boundaries shouldn't be confrontational, rather they should be communicated clearly. In this track, you will learn the difference between a boundary and a rule, have a better understanding of what makes a boundary successful, and what they need to be connected to help you enforce them meaningfully. In the end, I will help you get started on your boundary creation journey with an exercise.

Learn to set boundaries that teach people how to treat you with respect, kindness, and attentiveness. This track explains the difference between a boundary and a rule and how to enforce them meaningfully.

Empower Yourself To Create Boundaries

Can you recognize what kind of pressure allows you to thrive, rather than crumble like a cookie? Do you know when stress motivates you, rather than overwhelms you? Work on these five skills to keep your cool and thrive when the pressure is turned up.

Develop skills to thrive under pressure and recognize stress that motivates rather than overwhelms you.

Thrive Under Pressure

Feelings of happiness and contentment seem impossible when you are stressed out and overwhelmed. Here are five things to push out of the way to interrupt your stress response and let happiness take over.

Learn how to interrupt your stress response and prioritize happiness by pushing away five common stressors, leading to feelings of contentment and happiness.

How The Burned Out Can Find Happiness

You're on the verge of burnout (or already there), but you can't quit your job or walk away from your business. It is VERY possible to recover from burnout while working. In order to do so effectively, there are some hard truths to accept first. Find out how to create a plan to end your chronic stress.

Recover from burnout while working by accepting hard truths and creating a plan to end chronic stress.

Beat Burnout Without Quitting Your Job

Daily routines are a good thing... until they're not. While a good, healthy daily routine can keep you less stressed, your current daily routine may be prolonging your burnout and chronic stress. What is the best daily routine for someone trying to recover from burnout?

Healthy daily routines can become a source of burnout and chronic stress; the best routine for recovery varies.

Realistic Routine For Burnout Recovery

Building mental strength and resilience isn't always included in the burnout recovery process - but it is critical. Its' benefits are numerous, but the most important is how it can stop anxiety and stress before it even starts. Learn how to build your mental strength and resilience muscle with five quick daily exercises.

Building mental strength and resilience is critical in burnout recovery, as it can prevent anxiety and stress; learn how with five daily exercises.

An Antidote To Anxiety & Stress

Jennifer Bassman

Burnout & Boundaries Strategist, Author

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Emotional exhaustion is easily dismissed because it doesn’t seem like anything more than a string of bad days, bad moods, and annoying people. But this string of stressors and stressful events has led you to be chronically stressed. Burnout is just around the corner - but it doesn't have to be! Learn four ways to subdue your emotional distress and lower your stress levels.

Learn 4 ways to subdue emotional distress and lower stress levels to avoid burnout, which is caused by a string of stressful events.

What To Do When Emotionally Exhausted

As we go through life we accumulate people/things/obligations that no longer fit or resonate with our life as time goes on. You change. Other people change. Hanging on to these people/things/obligations may cause a lot of stress that you may not be fully aware of. So, how do you know what and when to let go?

Learn to let go of people, things, and obligations that no longer align with your life, as clinging onto them can cause unnoticed stress and hinder personal growth.

Recognize What No Longer Serves You

Are you creating a boundary or a rule? The two are often confused with each other. Learn the difference between the two, as well as, the one truth about boundaries that you need to get on board with in order to create and enforce effective boundaries.

Learn the difference between creating a boundary and a rule and the one truth about boundaries to effectively enforce them.