1: “Shutdown complete.”

Those are the two words we should say at the end of our workday.

Why? Because we are trying to create a “bright line” between our professional and personal lives.

When we are working, we are working. All-in. 100%.

And when our workday is over, we set a boundary so we can be 100% present with our families, friends, hobbies, or whatever we do to relax and … continue reading

1: In Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll’s dark and menacing sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice runs hand in hand with the Red Queen, struggling to keep up because the Queen is running so fast.

“Faster! Faster!” the Queen calls out.

“The most curious part of the thing,” Alice observes, “was that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast … continue reading