Commit to a Shutdown Ritual
Create a shutdown ritual that supports psychological detachment after work.
Run a shutdown ritual that creates a clean work-to-home border. The end of a workday where rumination, after-hours checks, or spillover usually steals recovery. My shutdown ritual: capture [open loops], choose [tomorrow's first action], send [boundary or handoff if needed], then use [physical cue] to close work. When [shutdown time] arrives, then I will run the ritual before checking any non-work tasks. Example: At 6:15, I will write the three open loops, choose tomorrow's first action, send any urgent handoff, close the laptop, and put it in the drawer before dinner. The shutdown boundary when work spillover usually reaches dinner…
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