#201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a Few Small Habits.

▶︎ #201 | It’s Not About One Big Boundary. It’s About a Few Small Habits.

In this solo episode of the Leman Tech Leadership Podcast, Aleksandra Lemańska follows up on the always-on leader episode with the question a lot of listeners asked afterward: okay, but what do I actually do every day so I don’t end up there in the first place? This is the prevention episode, not the crisis response, and she’s upfront that it isn’t one big boundary that fixes exhaustion, it’s a handful of small, repeatable habits.

She frames self-management as Contracting, but contracting with yourself, the same tool most leaders only ever use with other people, and shows why a vague wish like "I should disconnect more" doesn’t work the way a specific, checkable agreement does. She brings in PCM to explain why recovery isn’t universal either, what actually restores a Thinker base, a Harmonizer base, and a Rebel base are genuinely different things.

If you’ve tried the big dramatic resets and watched the same patterns creep back within two weeks, this episode gives you a smaller, more durable alternative: three specific habits, attached to your existing routine, checked weekly.

Mentioned in the episode:

"From Code to People: The CQ Leadership Method That Transforms Technical

Experts into Leaders Teams Actually Want to Work For":

https://fromcodetopeople.lemanskills.com/

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