Coaching practices for What to Do When Leaving a Job

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• I leave work but work never leaves me
• The project is wrapping and everyone’s just drifting off to the next thing with no acknowledgment of what we built together
• I walk straight from my laptop to the dinner table still in work-head, snapping at people and only half there
• We leave and come home with barely a glance
• There’s never a clean moment where work actually ends

Practices that may help

1. Use a 15-minute end-of-day planning buffer to close the day’s loops
   Before leaving work, take 15 minutes to list tomorrow’s priorities and explicitly close today’s open loops.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: How Unfinished Tasks Occupy Your Mind
2. Adjourning: close the team with intention
   How a team ends shapes how each member begins the next one.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
3. Follow shutdown with a clear transition activity
   Immediately after the shutdown phrase, do something non-work-related to mark the transition.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
4. Ritualize hellos and goodbyes
   Make greetings and departures a deliberate, warm full-stop rather than background noise.
   Secure-Functioning Relationships
5. Declare "shutdown complete" with a verbal phrase
   End the ritual with a consistent phrase that signals to the brain: work is closed, do not intrude.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
6. Review every open task at day’s end
   Before closing, scan every project and task list to confirm nothing is unacknowledged.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
7. Check email once more before shutdown — then close it
   Do a final pass through email to confirm nothing urgent arrived late, then close the app and leave it closed.
   The Shutdown Ritual, Made Practical
8. Use a shutdown ritual
   End the workday with a deliberate routine that closes open loops and declares work done.
   Deep Work, Made Practical
9. The last chance before a transition
   Before a major life change, fully inhabit what is ending, rather than only anticipating what comes next.
   The Last Time Meditation
10. Full presence with something passing
    Deliberately be present for the last or near-last moment of something — a season, a stage, a relationship — without numbing.
    Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things

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