4 Ways to Leave Work on Time Without Feeling Guilty

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Working long hours

Working long hours is an inconvenience, and here is why you should take a pause:

By working long hours you are increasing your risk for cardiovascular diseases, generally poor health, and fatigue.

The boundaries between work and life are becoming more blurred and the ability to carry our work diminishes in return. Having busy schedules don't allow us to fully turn off, thus sacrificing the time we need to replenish our energy for our healthy and productivity.

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Build an end-of-day routine

Developing an end-of-day routine helps us wind-down and get ready to go home. It gets you motivated even when you don't feel like it. Routines let us fall back on our everyday habits to make sure that, in this case, we leave the office on time without having to rely on willpower or memory.

Here are some things you can do for your end-of-day routine:

Tidy up your desk and close out every tab open
Review your completed tasks at the end of the day and plan out tomorrow's to-do list realistically
Leave open one tab for your "most important task" in the morning
Have a quick-win ready

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Set a hard finish time

If you don't have a real "go-home" time, you'd easily forget to leave work and often stay late, and while some may commend that, it can cause a toll on your health.

One way to solve this problem is to have an appointment that will force you to get out of the door after work hours. This will structure your day to leave on time.

Here are some ideas for events you can schedule after work:

Meet a friend for dinner
Go to the gym and exercise after work
Sign up for a class

Make sure to put the event on your calendar and treat them as events that are ugent.

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Parkinson's Law

When working from home, have you ever felt like you couldn't do anything after lunch because you know you have the time to work on it later at night?

This phenomenon is called Parkinson's law where work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. It basically means that your work will take as much time as you have to complete it.

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