Has anyone had goals related to taking time off of work? I’m interested in both do-more and do-less strategies. (I think maybe @shanaqui has done something around this?) Basically my therapist has recommended that I start working towards regularly taking time off from work, since now that I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and am now treating it, all I want to do is work since it’s been so hard to work in the past, which could be a recipe for burnout if I don’t moderate myself.
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You can assume that you have a certain number of vacation days/hours that you want to take a year (e.g. 20). From there you can do a do more goal (e.g. take 1.5 days off a month).
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Also you can create a goal that says that you have to stop working at a certain time each day (e.g 7pm/19:00).
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Well haven’t done anything with vacation days yet, but I took the leap with a do-less goal for total hours:
The data is wrong for today (didn’t work more than 12 hours!). The goal is currently set with a rate equivalent to 45 hours / week. Nothing fancy–no autodialing, auto-ratcheting, or anything for the time being. I’m automatically logging data to it once nightly using Make.com.
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I keep meaning to reply to this thread and then forgetting! Oof.
The do-less goal for my total hours was definitely a gamechanger for me. I log it via a flipped-over, non-cumulative Toggl goal: /clockoff. I also have goals to help me stop being so plugged into Slack (though @narthur and the other workerbees can all attest that I’m bad at sticking to it).
The other thing I did was try to think about why I over-work. In my case it was a fear of not earning enough, partially, so now I have an earnings goal that makes it really viscerally clear that I’m usually earning more than I need to cover my outgoings. Whether there’s a Beeminder solution for other motives for overwork, I don’t know, but it’d be worth thinking over.
I’m actually contemplating creating separate ‘work’ and ‘play’ profiles in my browser so that in the work one I can use Intention to curb the urge to look at Twitter or whatever, and then during “home” hours use it to curb the urge to look at work. 
It’s worked well to reduce my ability to accidentally end up doomscrolling… so it might be worth using to restrict my access to our help software during my off-hours.
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