Flexing your boundaries — Belinda Morgan

Welcome to another Flexible Success newsletter. Each edition includes a tip, a quote, a question and an interesting read - all related to flexible work. It's designed to be quick and easy to digest, and to provide you with some food for thought for the week ahead.

A TIP

Getting the balance right between knowing when to maintain a boundary and when to be flexible with it is an essential skill for succeeding at work. This can seem a bit counterintuitive - what's the point of having boundaries if you're going to flex them all over the place?!

The people who do it best, are able to walk a fine line between being too rigid (and refusing to take the occasional urgent call on their day off), and being too flexible (and spending hours of their non-work time responding to emails that could wait).

If you can find a way to walk this line well, you'll be able to protect your non-work time in a way that works for you and for those around you.

This is true of any role really, but it's an especially important skill when you are working part-time.

A QUOTE

'It’s a tension between being too flexible and ending up working full time and not being paid for it, and too inflexible, which doesn’t work for the organisation.’

– Matt Westmore

A QUESTION

Do you lean towards being too flexible with your boundaries or not flexible enough?

AN INTERESTING READ

This Inc article provides a perspective on why flexibility requires tradeoffs.

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