By Susan Kersley
As you take home another briefcase full of stuff to read and work on at home during the evening, you vow each day you've got to get your life sorted once and for all.
You've noticed recently that you hardly have any social life because your friends have given up asking you to join them as you always say you have too much work to do. Your family too seems to be fed up with you and they don't understand the pressure you are under to complete projects.
The only way to get things done seems to be to take it home and spend each evening in front of the computer of reading through boring documents.
But life doesn't have to be like that. There is a major difference you can make to it, if you make the decision that as from today you won't take work home with you any more.
So what will you do to make this a reality?
First you have to stop thinking about it and actually make the decision to change. If you've been procrastinating about this for years ask yourself what's stopping you?
Think about the benefits of not having a work-filled evening: you can go and see the latest films, spend time with friends and family, go out for a meal, catch up with light-hearted reading, join a local choir or sports team, get involved in amateur dramatics, or whatever it is which takes your fancy.
Just ask yourself: 'What would I do if I had the time?'
Spend some time thinking about your life with being able to take part in your chosen activity. Think about it every day until the contrast with your life now becomes so strong and compelling that you would do anything to actually be doing those things, instead of taking work home with you.
So having made the decision you may find applying it is as easy as not putting anything into your briefcase as you leave. Perhaps, instead, you could leave the file on your desk to have your attention first thing when you arrive the next day.
When you do that not only will your life improve socially but also you will have increased energy and enthusiasm to get on with your work each day because as the saying goes: all work and no play makes Jack (or Jill) a dull boy (or girl)'
This simple step of stopping work at the end of the working day will have a great positive effect on the rest of your life.
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