Page of Cups

You take things at work personally and call it caring. Some of it is caring. Some of it is letting feelings decide what a conversation was about.

What did you hear this week that was not about you?

Ask the person what they meant before you decide how you feel about it.

Money decisions are following your mood. The good days spend and the bad days panic, and neither is a plan.

What did you decide about money this month that a calmer day would have decided differently?

Make money decisions on a fixed day each week, and not on any other.

You feel everything with them, fast, and you say it. Openness is not the problem. Boundaries are the part that is missing, and it is making everything a crisis.

What did you feel this week that did not need to be said out loud right then?

Wait one day before sharing the next big feeling with them.

You are deciding by how it feels this morning. It will feel different tonight. Neither is the decision.

What have you changed your mind about three times this week?

Write the decision down and do not act on it for 48 hours.

You are open and it is real. It is also unfiltered, and the world does not get gentler because you are.

Who has access to your feelings that has not earned it?

Keep one feeling to yourself this week, on purpose, and see if it survives.

Every idea feels precious and every note feels like an attack, and the work cannot grow inside that.

Which piece of feedback did you feel rather than hear?

Read it again today as if it were about someone else's work.