Life vs. Business: How to Set Boundaries & Prioritize What Truly Matters! with Monique Allen

6 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Marc Haine. This content was uploaded by Marc Haine. This is a YouTube video titled "Life vs. Business: How to Set Boundaries & Prioritize What Truly Matters! with Monique Allen" (created 2025-03-06). The excerpt is a spoken advice segment—apparently Monique Allen or a single speaker—about work-life balance, setting boundaries, and self-care. The speaker uses metaphors (a boxer who 'floats' and the ocean) to describe becoming nimble in the face of problems, and gives practical examples (taking vacations, attending yoga, prioritizing family time) while noting many clients delay breaks for years.

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So it's not that the problems and the issues go away. It's just we become nimble. And if you think of a boxer, the way a boxer can float and move in a ring, it's because they've figured out how to dance through the fight. Mm-hmm. And this is what we're trying to do. Ultimately, to use another metaphor, we'll never know the ocean, but we can practice relating to the ocean. And so this is what we do in our lives. And so if we're doing it in our life, we can take it to our business and then we can say, that's crossing a line. I'm going to yoga. I'm going to my kid's game. I am going to go get a massage. You know what? I am going to take that class and not be in work for a whole week so that I can take that class. Mm-hmm. Those are the kinds of things that we start to feel empowered by saying. And what I see is when people come to me, they haven't taken a vacation for 4 and a half years.