Exit

Decide before you begin what makes you stop, and honor it when it fires. You name a threshold plus which of four ways out you take: halt for now, back up to a smaller dose, defer to a set time, or hand it to someone.

Decide before you begin what makes you stop, and honor it when it fires. You name a threshold plus which of four ways out you take: halt for now, back up to a smaller dose, defer to a set time, or hand it to someone.

Example

Before opening the inbox you write: "If two emails in a row leave me rereading the same line, I stop." On email four that happens, so you close the laptop, book 10 more minutes at 4pm, and text a colleague to handle the Hartford reply.