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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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Re-frame your "leaving work" mindset
There's nothing wrong about leaving work on time. Yet, you get this nagging feeling that it's not okay... here's what you can do about that:
Reframe your mindset from "I'm leaving work now" to "I'm going home to spend time with my family/friends/dog."
Framing your next activit...
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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 ...
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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 mean...
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Plan your day more realistically
Planning more than what you can do in a day is setting yourself up for failure, why would anyone do that to themselves, right?
We often underestimate how much we'll be interrupted throughout the day and overestimate how much we can actually do.
The secret to planning is to:
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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.
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Strategies to prioritize your time
- Address why - Do not do things simply to kill time.
- Allow slack time - Leave time for spontaneity.
- Know your calendar mindset - Is it time to move on to the next event or do events shape the schedule?
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SET YOUR PRIORITIES
- Have a List – Many people say, “I know what I have to get done.” But, they don’t have a list. Until you have written your tasks down and compared them against each other, it is difficult to have a clear picture of what is truly important.
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