[Post by Karla Willems, Account Manager at GeoMetrix Data Systems Inc.]
A recent post at Research Digest titled “Here’s a simple way to improve your work/life boundaries” discusses the affects of completed and uncompleted work goals on our home lives. The website, from the British Psychological Society, recounts the results of a study conducted by Brandon Smit of Ball University in Indiana. Smit asked participants to report on daily work goals and how much these goals occupied their thoughts in the evenings. Unsurprisingly, uncompleted goals took up more thought than completed ones.
But Smit did not leave his study participants out in the cold over these worries. He instructed them to clearly plan where, when and how they would tackle each one. The Research Digest posts states, “By specifying the context for action, this helped the high-involved participants to put the goals out of mind during off-work hours, and as a result their uncompleted goals produced fewer intrusions, almost as if they had the same status as completed goals.”
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