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How do you switch off from work outside work? I find this incredibly difficult and am carrying client projects around in the back of my mind - even at parties, walking in the countryside I’m still problem solving. It’s exhausting!
If you have followed my blog for any length of time you will now I’m an enormous fan of getting things done.
One of the principals from that book is the idea of getting stuff out of your head so that you are not constantly worrying about it.
You can’t stop yourself thinking about work in your spare time, however you can prevent yourself from endlessly worrying about it by getting it out of your head and down onto paper so that you can be confident it will not be forgotten.
I do this by using a task manager that contains absolutely every action I might wish to take whether in my personal life or at work. My tool of choice is Omnifocus although I know of a number of other products that are equally good.
Whenever a thought relating to work pops into my head I immediately recording it into Omnifocus using my iPhone, ipad or desktop computer. Once it is written down I can be confident that I don’t need to think about it again until I return to work.
In short, you can’t stop yourself thinking about work but you can prevent yourself worrying about it and wasting more time than necessary dwelling on it.
