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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is that while real breaks are wonderful and rejuvenating things, when you feel the first urge to take a break, consider whether you can work just a little bit longer first. Five more minutes here and there can add up and make a real difference in your productivity. When you are feeling stuck or bored or overwhelmed by a work task, it is tempting to go get another cup of coffee.
or go to the restroom, or wander around the halls at work, or move the laundry to the dryer if you are working from home. And it is possible that you do need a break sometime soon. But if you give in to the urge to take a break right away, at the first moment your attention wanders, you may be undermining your productivity. You might not be at a good stopping point. You might also be trying to do something easy to avoid something hard.
Taking a break right then will mean time away from your desk and then time to get back focused and fully on track. So before you stop, consider if maybe you can push through to a good stopping point or through the tough work and then stop. Just wait five before you take five and your breaks will help your productivity rather than undermine it. Because here's the thing, well-timed, rejuvenating breaks are
can make your workday more productive and more satisfying. I suggest that people take a real break mid-morning for lunch and then mid-afternoon. Ideally, you think about what you'd like to do and consciously build in those rejuvenating activities during that time. Often, people tell me that they don't really take breaks. But if you look at how you are spending their days, they are in fact taking breaks all the time.
They're working on a project but then get a little bored and decide to check email. They read two non-urgent work emails, then see a breaking news headline and click over to read that and wind up spending 10 minutes or more reading the news before realizing it's time to get back to work. It didn't register as a break and it wasn't all that rejuvenating, but it was time away from work. So it was a break. Those fake breaks can add up over the course of a day.
Since none of those emails actually needed to be dealt with anytime soon, this was all a waste of time, really. Better to push through that boredom to a natural stopping point, or to the time when you agreed to meet a colleague for coffee, and then enjoy this real break. Now, again, it may be the case that you are tired or hungry or need the bathroom, but all of those things can generally wait at least a minute or two.
So when you start feeling the need to leave what you are doing, check in and see if this is truly what you need or whether, with a few more minutes, you could really get something done. I love breaks, but I want them to be worthwhile. If you wait five before you take five, that is more likely to be the case. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening. And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com. Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia. For more podcasts from iHeartMedia, please visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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