How to Take a Great Break from Work
Breaks at work are essential to your physical and mental health
If you worked every minute of a typical eight-hour day, you would work 480 minutes. Probably 0.01% of people are productive for all of those minutes.
Most people are not maximizing every workday. They are often non-productive. And there are those employees who just collect a paycheck and count the minutes to the end of the day. They are bored or unmotivated to put in the work to be a successful employee. Whatever your situation is, research shows that you can eliminate your distractions at work and improve your productivity with breaks.
Let’s discuss how you can take a great break from work.
Don’t manage your time, manage your priorities
The first thing you should do is schedule your break. Time will go on, no matter how you manage it. Our work during the day can most likely be done in less time, but often we think we have eight hours so we need to fill it with constant work tasks.
The key is to time block your day and schedule your breaks. Perhaps you can schedule 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon. Time blocking works because it breaks up your day into smaller segments and keeps you accountable…
