End Your Workday With a Pre-Selected Item on Your to-Do List
If you’re not careful, work can take over your life and waste your precious personal time. Knowing when to end a day is not always easy, but choosing something to end with can help.
The work can be endless, always forcing you to do “one more thing,” but overworking just a little bit every day is a one-way ticket to burnout. Sudan Patel of Inc. invites you to designate one of your tasks in advance as the last task of the day:
At the end of the day, tackle one final task, complete it, and then finish the job. Don’t let yourself be distracted by a bunch of unfinished tasks that you would like to mark on your to-do list.
For now, ignore everything else on the list and get on with the rest of your day. These other things will remain there when you return to them tomorrow. Then do the same. Pick one activity (simple, measurable), then save it to complete your day. You will end each day with a sense of completeness and always leave at a convenient stopping point.