When you change a habit, you change your identity, and that unsettles people around you who lose the familiar version of you. Boundaries create the time and space for new behaviors, signal your direction to others, and protect you from people who won't support the change.
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But I felt like I had got— I'd really mastered a lot of stuff involved in making really good boundaries that I wanted to share. And I was talking to my editor and she's like, my gosh, it would be such a great addition to the habits book to really put that in there. And I was like, oh my God, of course, because when you change a behavior, you're changing your identity, right? So then all the people around you experience this change too. And quite frankly, when you change, it's very common for the people around you to not be supportive because you're changing who you're being. You're basically killing off the identity of the person they know and love and they are not psyched about that. So especially when you're forming, you know, habits that really shift a way of being in the world, it's so important to have good boundaries so that you set yourself up for success, so that you create the time you need and the space you need, and, you know, you really let everybody know where you're standing.