Carrie Mead explains how work expands to fill whatever time you give it. She stays at the office until tasks are done, then leaves work behind entirely. Without boundaries, work bleeds into personal time and the work itself suffers.
I just was listening this morning and leaning into the idea that work fills whatever box you give it. If you give it a gigantic box of your entire life. Two in the morning, four in the morning, six in the morning, then it's gonna fill it.
Yep, exactly. Yeah, that's. That's great. I hadn't thought about it that way, but it's true. Like, you. You know, I. I laugh because I talk to people. Like, I like to stay late. I'd rather stay, like, an extra hour at night. I'm not gonna go home and fire my computer back up and do more work. Right. The way I protect my. My space and my piece that way is like, I stay till I get it done. Because you're right. If I bring it home, then it will. And I reopen. Reopen the door to that box, and I'll. I'll make more space for it.
And
we don't. We don't want to do that. We want to. We want to make lots of space for lots of things.
And I know when I do that, it's the quality suffers.