Rethink Your After-Work Routine to Make the Transition Home a Happy One [WSJ.com]

Samantha Sangenito 2/11/1512:00 PM

It is so easy to arrive home from work in a bad mood, cranky and frustrated.

Our grandfathers’ generation found a solution in a dry martini. Today, it falls to psychology to help us transition happily from work to home. Psychologists call it “boundary work”—devising routines and rituals that create mental space between the day’s frustrations and the evening’s rewards.

The routine could be hitting the gym or something as simple as running errands or stopping for an espresso. “It’s all about what makes you happy,” says Cali Williams Yost, a consultant on flexible workplaces and author of “Tweak It,” a book about making small changes to improve well-being.

[For more of this story, written by Sue Shellenbarger, go to http://www.wsj.com/articles/re...1601?KEYWORDS=mental]

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