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THE PRACTICE Whenever you agree to a demanding deadline, block the day after it as a light day at the same moment, before anything else can claim it. Big deadlines have a familiar pattern. The week before is long days and late nights. You hit the deadline, send the...

THE PRACTICE Give your own workspace the same check an employer would: chair, screen height, lighting and how often you get up. Fix the worst problem first. At many larger companies, someone thinks about how you sit. There's an adjustable chair, a monitor at the right...

THE PRACTICE Set your phone so business apps and notifications go quiet at a fixed time each evening and come back at a fixed time each morning, automatically. When you had a job, the office had a front door. You walked out, and the work mostly stayed behind. Even the...