3 Personal Boundaries To Set in a Multi-Creative Business
Setting clear boundaries, in a multi-creative business, is how you prioritize what’s important and what isn’t. Is it easy? Heck no. So, here are 3 tips to help you.
Setting clear boundaries is hard because you will upset some people by doing it. That’s the truth. Most of us don’t like upsetting people, but we can’t be all things to all people, and if you have a business, you definitely don’t want to try.
Having clear personal boundaries in place will save you tons of mental and emotional stress. This is whether you’re a multi-creator, have a business, or not.
“It is necessary and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it”
Boundary 1: self-love and compassion
Prioritizing self-love and self-compassion as a multi-creator is at the top of my list. Looking after yourself is looking after your business, your family, and your customers. You’ll have to figure out what daily self-love looks like to you.
I meditate, do yoga, journal, work in my garden, drink water, and tell myself I’m doing a good enough job. Little things and not all of them in one day, but I try and remember moments to come back to myself every day.
Setting a boundary around looking after your mental, emotional, and physical sends the signal that you’re in business for the long haul.
Burnout and hustling are not cool.
If this means, you have to go much slower than the hustle jargon you see from other marketers and get yourself a part-time job, good for you!
Boundary 2: making time for creativity
My experience as a creativity coach tells me that unless you make time for creativity, you’ll put it off.
I understand how easily one day takes the next, and before you know it, it’s been weeks since you’ve spent time on your own craft, and the very thing that made you go into business in the first place.
As a multi-passionate entrepreneur, your creative style and expression are what sets your business apart.
Practicing and playing around with your own creativity may feel indulgent and not something you really have time for, but that is what will feed you and bring meaning to your work.
15 minutes during your week will do wonders. You don’t need hours and hours if that’s not realistic for you. Often, 15 minutes is what I manage, but they are glorious 15 minutes.
Maybe you can spend 15 minutes while your kids do their homework (unless you have to help them). Take half an hour in the morning while you drink your lovely cup of morning coffee to write in a journal or do some other creative work. Small steps will get you a long way.
The last thing you need is more guilt or stress about yet another thing you’re not doing. 5 minutes here and there, maybe half an hour, a few hours sometimes. It all adds up.
Once you steal moments to yourself here and there and experience the wonderful feeling of getting lost inflow, you’ll want to recreate that feeling as often as possible.
Boundary 3: customer demands
Ugh, this is a hard one. As much as we like to give amazing customer service, and do everything we can to help our clients and customers, it’s essential to have boundaries in place for when someone asks for a discount or endless revisions to a design, for example.
Your business has to make money so you can’t give your time or products away for free. Something I’ve struggled to learn.
Having set clear boundaries in your creative business frees up headspace and gives you confidence. It saves you time and money too.
If you write your boundaries clearly in your contracts, your emails, your terms and conditions page, and other places, you’ll find them easier to implement.
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