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A man cannot work without rest, but rest without work is not satisfying
It would seem that nothing could be easier. The work day is over, you pack up your bags and finally go home to rest and recuperate after a busy eight hours of work. You have dinner with your family, go to the gym, or plan to watch a movie… But what if there’s an unfinished report in the office? Or a few unread emails?
Do you really get to do what you want to do? Or do you only pretend to rest, when in fact you are constantly scrolling in your head all the things to do at work, planning tomorrow’s tasks, or worrying about missing deadlines?
You can make your feet carry you away from your work at the end of the day, but “negotiating” with your brain can be many times more difficult. As a result, you rightly begin to feel like you’re thinking about work 24 hours a day and seven days a week, but despite the uninterrupted thought process (many people even dream about their work at night, and that’s not a good sign either), productivity and efficiency only decrease. Why?
You lose focus
You become absent-minded and forgetful, which leads to unpleasant situations at work that cause negative emotions.
You lose creativity
If you work more than you need, even your most beloved work will turn into an annoying routine. You will not have the energy to generate new ideas, and you will simply work according to a template.
You burn out
Every thought about work makes you sad, you want to throw the alarm clock out the window, and you even want to run away from everyone and turn off the phone. Maybe you already have burnout, and it is worth more time to devote to yourself.
What to do?
A few useful hacks to “trick” the mind and free it from thoughts of work, which will be especially useful to those who pore over reports, even on the way home and checking email, frantically waking up in the middle of the night.
Make a plan for the week.
Write down each day of your work, taking into account all your legal breaks, clearly calculating the time that you will need to perform a particular task. The key to success is to start from your own speed of work and only then set a norm for the number of tasks (you may have to discuss this issue with your boss).
Make promises.
Another incentive is to put things off until tomorrow and switch to a new task. Don’t upset your child if you promised to go out with him or her tonight. Don’t let your friends down if you agreed to meet at a bar. A class with a trainer, a lesson with a tutor, or an appointment at a salon are also promised that need to be kept and for which you (whether you want to or not) just have to quit your job for this amount of time.
Disconnect
If you’re brave enough, turn off all your devices and warn your coworkers that you don’t intend to respond to their messages outside work hours. Leave your phone in another room while you sleep, or put it on “night mode” so you won’t wake up to every incoming message. You’d be surprised, but when you wake up in the morning, nothing catastrophic will happen to your work. There’s nothing wrong with that – you have the right not to think about work during your legal (!), free time from work.
