TIL shutting down my laptop at 5 PM for calls actually saved me from 3 months of burnout

Used to take client calls at all hours from my couch until I blocked off 6-8 PM for evening grooms at my shop and suddenly my mornings went from chaos to calm, any other founders here set hard cutoffs for calls and actually stick to em?

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emerycarr22d ago

Set a hard block on your calendar and treat it like an appointment with yourself. Put an auto-responder on your phone saying you're unavailable during that time and call back the next morning. It takes about two weeks of sticking to it before clients stop pushing back and start respecting the boundary.

abby_henderson21d ago

@emerycarr Two weeks working a callback just sounds like bad planning to me, is a phone cutoff really that deep.