Guy Winch

That'll help me recover from that.

It takes five minutes.

We don't have the awareness.

We just want to keep going, but our cognitive and all our abilities start going down the hill during the day.

And then, you know, we're much less effective.

We start to make mistakes.

We're less creative, less productive.

So it's not a smart way to manage ourselves, but it's the autopilot way.

First move is understand that you need to put on a self-management hat.

You need to have a role in your head of, let me figure out how to manage myself and manage the stress and take a few minutes from my day, from my evening, the day before, the night before, from the morning, to strategize how to get through this specific day, to figure out how to recover well when I'm at home, to really prioritize my life.

When we talk about the work-life balance, people always say, oh, I added an hour of yoga.

And I'm like...

Okay, that's great.

I'm all for yoga.

But that's not what the life part.

The life part means being present and putting the kids to bed and having dinner with your partner and hanging out with your friends.

Just being present and being able to enjoy that.

That's what people start to lose touch with.

Okay, so first of all, understand that in order to recover from the workday, the first thing that has to happen that you have to detach from work.

In other words, if you are thinking about work when you're at home, you're at work.