The vacation, the weekend, the well-deserved break is on the horizon. You can almost touch it. What do you do now?
Free yourself to enjoy time off by putting things in order before you leave.
I’m about to take a week off (hooray!). So today and this weekend I’ll be buckling down and working my tushy off so I leave with a clear conscience and no worries about loose ends that didn’t get tied off, clipped or otherwise dealt with.
This is natural – the desire to leave on vacation with a clean slate – but it’s also a practice you can employ for life, productivity and so much more. Before you turn your attention to ANY new thing, make sure to “put to rest” the old thing so you don’t take its distraction forward. Leave with as clean a slate as you can. If you don’t close down and release one thing before turning to the other, your brain builds up with worries, incomplete thoughts and other mental junk. This is one of many reasons multi-tasking can be dangerous for your sanity.
Practice on little things. Before you go to lunch, rearrange your desk and imagine what you’ll start on first when you get back. Then let that item wait for you at your desk instead of taking it to lunch. Same thing with your email before you leave for the day. Clear your slate constantly until it becomes a habit to take an uncluttered mind from one thing to the next as you go through your day.
Of course life will interfere and fight you on this sometimes, but your mind will be more clear and you’ll be better able to deal with life’s pokes and jabs along the way.
Try it. No excuses.
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