9 Boundaries You Should Set With New Clients
These life-changing boundaries will make your business WAY more fun to run š
Burnout is realāand you know that if youāve ever tried to wash your hands with a slice of pizza. š
When it comes to running a creative business, or any kind of (omg, this is so much WORK) business, burnout doesnāt happen once a lifetime.
It happens once a decade.
Maybe it even happens once a year. Isnāt that why weāre all on Canva? To design revenge logos for some other alternate life we could *almost* see ourselves living?
(Nope, sure donāt own the domain www.funnyobituaries.com or anything. NOPE, NOT MEEEEE. *looks around room š¬š¬š¬š¬š¬š¬š¬*)
In case you donāt know this, my name is Ash Ambirge and I have a lot of problems.
Years and years and years ago, right around the dark age of dialing-up like peasants, I started a creative copywriting company that specialized in making the internet more fun to read. During that decade, I wrote a gorilla-ton of words for other people & companies, most of whom also had a lot of problems.
Iām mostly kidding about that?
But also, not kidding, because when you work for yourself you also work with humans, and apparently human interaction is not something they teach in school.
So, during that time I learned a lot about managing other peopleās fickle-ass weirdness. Can that be a phrase? I mean, we all have our own fickle-ass weirdness weāre battling. For instance, I refuse to wash a coffee mug that has something floating in it. Even if itās cheese. Even if I logically know itās just cheese. That cheese has lost its dignity. Itās given up being cheese and is now just an existential crisis in dairy form.
Imagine what a treat I am as a client!
But in all seriousness, I learned real quick about the beautyāand necessityāof something I call āburnout bumpers.ā
Cute name, right? But donāt be fooled: these things are ferocious little boundaries you gotta put in place in order to run a sane little biz (since remember, there are humans you gotta talk to).
So today, I wanted to tell you about 9 of my favorite, must-have burnout bumpers that will help you work with clients (healthily & happily!) without spontaneously combusting into a pile of stress confetti.
Your life is never going to be the same.
You might even start to like dogs.
And they will also make you more money. (Just because this is the internet and apparently Iām supposed to promise you that.)