{"id":2289,"date":"2021-04-02T17:26:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T01:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T02:38:18","slug":"how-do-you-put-down-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/blog\/how-do-you-put-down-your-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Put Down Your Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2289\" class=\"elementor elementor-2289\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-016ef41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"016ef41\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c7e363\" data-id=\"8c7e363\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91ca883 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91ca883\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a time when for many of us our professional and personal lives co-exist (dress shirt on the top, sweatpants on the bottom anyone?) it\u2019s easy to let one day carry on into another.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our work days carry on into our rest days until they all blur together\u2014weeks seemingly no longer end and all days become just another day of the week.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When every day feels the same, we can lose our sense of rhythm that relates to forward movement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A simple way you can help restore (or instill) that sense of rhythm is to create a habit or ritual to put down your day\u2014whether that\u2019s your work day or the actual day\u2014so that you don\u2019t keep carrying it on. A simple habit or ritual can help to create boundaries and edges that better delineate one day from the next.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A friend of mine \u201cputs his office to bed\u201d at the end of his work day, covering his desk with a sheet.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another friend makes a cup of hot chocolate\u2014something he has enjoyed since he was a child\u2014and enjoys it while recording in his journal something he learned that day.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another friend \u201ccommutes home\u201d after their work day, taking their dog for a walk around their neighborhood.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for me, I put down my work day by writing for 15 minutes to get my thoughts out of my head and then turn off my computer until the next work day.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of the day, how are you bringing your day to an end? What small habit or ritual might help you put down your day so you can better enjoy the rhythm of forward movement?<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the day, how do you put down your day so that you don&#8217;t keep carrying it on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empathy","category-innovation","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/How-Do-You-Put-Down-Your-Day.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rulenumbersix.ca\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}