Name the access
Identify the exact thing this person can currently reach or influence.
They currently have access to my ________.
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A short reset for noticing who has access to your time, attention, labor, and peace—and whether that access still makes sense.
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Move slowly. A useful answer is more important than a polished one. Write privately, pause when your body asks, and return when you are ready.
Identify the exact thing this person can currently reach or influence.
They currently have access to my ________.
Use behavior, not history or potential, to evaluate what happens with that access.
The last three times I gave access, the evidence was ________.
Notice the cost in time, money, sleep, self-trust, or emotional recovery.
Keeping this access open costs me ________.
Make the next boundary concrete enough to follow without another debate.
Beginning now, I will ________.
Decide what you will repeat when pressure returns.
My one-sentence boundary is: ________.
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