This month, we’re focusing on taking control of your workday and exploring how the practice of “Completing Your Day” can significantly enhance your effectiveness and strengthen your leadership presence.

Why it Matters?

The Completing Your Day practice is a “daily end of day commitment to Being Complete as a state of mind to offer freedom, space and possibility” – Zampella, 2018. This protects personal time and sustains the intensity of the workday that preceded it.

This practice also creates a clear boundary, signaling to your brain that it is safe to fully disconnect and stop worrying about work until the next morning, ultimately supporting better focus, leadership performance, and work-life balance.

Leadership Strategy

The “Completing Your Day” practice is a brief, intentional set of tasks, usually 5 to 15 minutes, performed at the end of your workday that should include:

1. Ensure all incomplete items are captured and planned for
2. Your Inbox is emptied
3. Requests of you are completed or responded to
4. Reviewing tomorrow for workability and prep
5. Self-reflection time identifying insights from your day that impacted your performance – what inspired me, engaged me, upset me, along with key accomplishments from my day.

Leadership Challenge

Over the next week, schedule 15-30 minutes at the end of each workday in your calendar to “Complete Your Day”, which will set up your evening and the next day for success.