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Life is finite but work is infinite. When you hit your 40s you'll start wondering why you wasted all your time for no benefit to you. When you work in your 20s you don't think it'll ever end but once you hit 40 you realize you're mortal and Friday's problem can become Monday's problem as it doesn't really matter.

Take a notebook and write down the issues that come into your head at the weekend then hopefully that will help you disconnect.

Don't check or respond to email at the weekend is my preference. My big boss once said that the great thing about working remote is that we don't need to book-end our jobs as being 9 to 5. Yeah, no.

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> write down the issues

I used to think the only purpose of writing things down is so that I don't forget, but I knew I could remember so I didn't write stuff down, and usually I did remember.

Writing stuff down serves another, more important, purpose though. It allows you to forget. After you write it down, you can let it go, free your mind, and know it's physically waiting for you on Monday.

When you hit your 40s you'll start wondering why you wasted all your time for no benefit to you.

You might. Or you might look at your bank account, and the house, and the kid's private school, and the paid-off medical bills, the charitable donations you've done and will do, and the diversified portfolio which is paying cashflow so you and your kids don't have to work again (but still want to).

For most people within 2 sigmas, don't work a minute more than you're paid. But for those who believe success and knowledge compounds f(time); consider turning the knob towards (but not all the way) towards work side of work:life balance.

> Friday's problem can become Monday's problem

Not only this, but on weekdays problems can be left to the following morning.

I second the notebook for getting work puzzles - or their showertime solutions - out of my head.

I don't have a work phone, and blowed if I'm going to install Outlook on my personal phone.

> My big boss once said that the great thing about working remote is that we don't need to book-end our jobs as being 9 to 5.

Hehe sure we can make it 10 to 4 then. Thanks bossman.

Only good for the bosses and the shareholders.

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