Set realistic expectations regarding obligations, time with family, etc. Set clear boundaries and limits with others about what you can and cannot do.
"So we've got to be realistic about how much obligation we've got to put on ourselves.
Even realism has an obligation to be realistic.
What I love about sport, and didn't even notice until the Olympics, is this: licensed enthusiasm; authorised respite from the national obligation of being realistic and thinking the worst.
MONEYMAVEN: How would a more realistic method of accounting for pension obligations, and unfunded obligations, be implemented?
Controversy continues today about how to analyze and evaluate the commitments of a principle of beneficence, including how to formulate limits that reduce required burdens on agents' life plans and make meeting the obligations of beneficence a realistic possibility.
Led Zeppelin biographer Keith Shadwick notes that forming an actual group at the time "was never a realistic option", due to existing contractual obligations.
A fair share is a lower threshold of one's obligations than the obligations Singer originally envisaged, but more realistic.
"The current alternatives are not realistic options – little or no influence and the obligation to comply with EU principles whilst still paying most of the costs.
But our first obligation is to create interesting, suggestive, realistic, possibly even challenging situations, set our characters down in them and see where they go.
The multidisciplinary transplant team has an obligation to provide informed consent, foster realistic expectations, and advise the candidate based on collective expertise.
