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by thrower123 2820 days ago
> When the end of the day approaches, start finishing up whatever you were working on, and mentally prepare for what you'll be doing the next day. Then forget everything until tomorrow morning.

Be prepared to either let go of whatever plans you have made, or to stash them in actionable form in longer-term storage for a rainy day, in the event that you start work the next morning and are thrust into reactive triage mode. It can be immensely frustrating if you are anticipating and have expended mental energy planning tasks A, B and C, and attempt to juggle completing them with surprise Sev 1 priority tasks X, Y and Z.