Keep Work From Following You Home by Giving Unfinished Tasks a Time and Place

If you have a hard time shutting down at the end of the day, youre not alone.

Most of us have a habit of letting the workday linger.

To keep this from happening, assign a specific place and time for your unfinished business.

This tip comes from research published in theJournal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

The research studied over 100 employees pursuing 1,127 different goals.

For example, send email when I get to my desk at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

In other words, making the action specific helped employees stop thinking about their unfinished business during non-working hours.

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