Hey Friends,
Let’s start with a quote i just came across last evening
It states that:
“All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.” — Dr. Bronnie Ware
That line lands because it names what most productivity advice forgets: work is a means, not the metric.
People don’t mourn the emails they sent.
They mourn the dinners they missed.
They mourn being present for the tiny, repeating moments that become a life.
If you want to avoid that regret, you don’t need a radical overhaul.
You need small, defensible changes that add up.
Here are three plays you can run this week.
Play 1 — The 7-Day Visibility Audit (10–15 minutes/day)
Each evening for seven days, log two things:
• Minutes worked beyond your planned schedule.
• What you missed because of that extra work (example: “bedtime story,” “dinner with partner,” “evening walk”).
At day seven, you’ll see the real cost of “just one more task.” Visibility changes behavior.
Play 2 — Reallocate, don’t just remove
If you free up 5 hours this week, what will you put back into your life?
Schedule the replacement first, Friday family dinner, Saturday morning walk, a 60-minute block for your partner.
When you plan what you gain, you defend the time.
Play 3 — One micro-boundary that scales
Pick one non-negotiable: one evening per week, or the first hour after you get home.
Script to use at work:
“I can’t take that tonight, I’ve blocked my evenings this week.
I can handle it first thing tomorrow.”
Start with 60 minutes. Protect it. When it works, expand.
A tiny experiment to try today: Turn on Do Not Disturb for the first 60 minutes after you get home.
Use that hour to do something that builds your life, not your resume.
Final thought: the opposite of “work harder” isn’t “stop working.”
It’s “work with boundaries so the life you’re building actually looks like a life.”
Save this if you’re prone to saying “one more thing.”
Follow for short, repeatable plays you can actually ship.