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The 72-Hour Rule That Stopped Me Overcommitting
In Episode 72 of Work-Life Balance with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a simple but powerful boundary tool: the 72-hour rule. Instead of saying yes or no on the spot to new requests, you give yourself three days to decide. They walk through a real case from a project manager at a mid-sized software firm who used the rule to cut her overcommitment rate from 80% to 30% in two months. The episode covers the psychological mechanism behind it—how urgency hijacks our decision-making—and the three questions to ask during the waiting period. No complicated systems, just one delay that rebuilds your…
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