Your to-do list will never say “done.” Lie down anyway; the pit crew doesn’t wait for the race to end.

A list does not finish, it renews, so waiting to be done before you rest means waiting for something that has no end. Rest treated as a reward for completion is rest that never arrives, and the work degrades until the hours you put in stop producing much of anything. Recovery is part of the work rather than a break from it.

Put rest in the schedule at a fixed time instead of at the end of the list. Take it while things are still outstanding, which they always will be. You will do the remaining work better for having stopped.