I’ve been trying to protect my mornings, but I still find myself skimming emails the second I wake up. It’s like my brain never gets a clean slate, I just go straight into problem-solving mode before I even get coffee. I know I’d feel better saving it for later, but I worry I’ll miss something important. How do you actually resist the urge to check work stuff first thing?

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It's hard but remove email from your phone and just check it at your computer.

It's just a matter of self-discipline. You need to get breakfast first, that's part of taking care of yourself. If there's something you're expecting to hear, that's one thing. But apart from that, just tell yourself the email can wait. It seriously can, we have to let the mailbox do its job and hold on to things until we want to deal with them.

I just don’t! I have boundaries and my mental health is so important to me. Especially my morning alone time. If work starts creeping in my thoughts on Sunday, I shut them down immediately. If something happened to me, I’d be replaced and never thought about again within a week. So there’s that.

I started charging my phone in the kitchen overnight. It sounds small, but not having it by my bed makes it way easier to break the habit.

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