The work you finish on Thursday is what makes Saturday actually feel like Saturday.

Rest has a texture, and that texture depends on what is sitting unfinished. The same free afternoon feels completely different when something half done is waiting in the background, tugging at you every time you settle. Time off is not created by the calendar. It is created by work that is genuinely closed.

Look at what would otherwise follow you into the weekend, and finish that piece first even if something else is more interesting. Getting one task to a real stopping point beats getting three to almost done. Then let the free hours be free, without checking.