actually logged off at 5:30 every day this week and the world didn’t end

i work from home and i’ve had this terrible habit of just… working until whenever. like i’d tell myself i’d stop at 5:30 but then it would be 6:30 or 7 and i’d still be answering emails

this week i decided to actually stick to ending at 5:30 unless something was genuinely urgent. and i did it. every single day.
nothing bad happened. no one got mad. all the work still got done.
i think part of what helped was having something to do right after work (i’ve been doing piano practice at like 5:45) so there was an actual reason to stop instead of just ‘i should probably stop working at some point’
anyone else struggle with this when your office is literally just your apartment? how do you actually create that separation?