How do I stop checking work first thing and last thing every day?

Work is the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing at night. It has taken both ends of your day, the moments that should belong to you. Slowly, it has coloured every hour in between, because you are never fully off. The edges of the day matter more than they seem. How you wake sets the tone for the hours ahead; how you fall asleep shapes your rest. When work owns both, it owns the frame around your whole life. Those messages are almost never so urgent that they cannot wait an hour. Reclaim one edge first. Pick the morning or the night and make it a work-free zone: leave the phone in another room, and do one human thing instead, coffee, a walk, a real conversation. Guard that small window. From there, take back the other end. Your day should begin and end with your life, not your inbox.