You don’t need to expend any unnecessary cognitive energy or risk hitting a block. You’re lowering the psychological barrier to returning to work: When you come back after lunch and head into your afternoon, there’s no question of where you want to start. Why? Well, Hemingway’s hack works for two reasons: ![]() Whether you’re banging out customer support tickets, putting together a new strategy doc, or editing your slide deck for a presentation, the key is to stop not when you’re finished, but when you know exactly what to do next. And you can’t wait to get back because you know what you want to say next and that’s lovely." "You make yourself stop, put your pencil down and everything, and you walk away. "If you stop when you are going good, as Hemingway said…then you know what you are going to say next," explains author Roald Dahl (who, oddly enough, is the original source for Hemingway’s trick). So instead of neatly wrapping up that task before you break for lunch, follow this simple piece of advice from Ernest Hemingway: Stop while you’re ahead. ![]() It’s easy to keep riding the pre-afternoon high of our natural boost in energy, but fully completing a task or project at this point can actually be detrimental to your ability to get back in the swing of things after lunch. However, you should use some of this high energy to set yourself up for a productive afternoon. The hours before your energy naturally starts to decline are some of your peak working hours and shouldn’t be wasted. ![]() Plan for a Productive Afternoon-Before You Have Lunch Just like a morning routine can kickstart your day, devising an afternoon routine based around our lower energy levels can help us get the most out of the day, even when our body would rather curl up on the couch and watch Netflix. So, if we’re predisposed to sluggishness in the post-lunch hours, what can we do?
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