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Detached, Distracted and Disillusioned? Regain Control Of Your Boundaries
Patrol the boundaries and thresholds of your work and learn techniques and strategies to say no.
Detached, distracted and disillusioned.
There have been times in my life when my career was happening to me.
It seemed that the control over the direction, intensity and pace of teaching and leadership was out of my grasp. This lack of control and agency coincided with times when I suffered the most with poor mental health, and I was detached, distracted and disillusioned.
The change in my career — I became an education consultant and now run my own business — pushed me to develop boundaries around my work time.
These self-authored boundaries were (are) even more critical because I could work from anywhere, and it was easy to take the laptop into the kitchen and answer the email from the school excited to start a partnership.
Work did not have the same physical pattern as teaching, and it took on a different type of rhythm and cadence, unbound from a timetable.
Work did not have physical premises, and to this day, I have always worked from home. The lines and…
