Sometimes I set myself up for failure. I had this client with whom I was seeing weekly. Because of his job situation, he could only make an appointment at 9am on Fridays, which was two hours earlier than my business hours, but because it was a weekly situation, I figured I could live with it.
UGH. Those early morning appointments were starting to look more like a burden than anything else, and with almost always having a late evening appointment the night before, I would be dragging ass in the mornings instead of being my normal chipper self. So, I was naughty and canceled a couple of them, which upset him, understandably, and he responded by firing me. This all made me sad because I really enjoyed working with him.
We did discuss this together a couple of weeks later, how I thought I could do an early morning appointment like that, and how things got to be more burdensome than fun, and he mentioned to me that with his new job, he could do an afternoon appointment instead. This brightened up my day considerably, and we talked about how much we enjoyed working together,etc. So, I booked an afternoon appointment with him for this week, and we’re going resume our weekly sessions.
Maybe I’m not such a failure after all, but I do need to be more realistic about when I want to work and defend my boundaries more.
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