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Micro-breaks: How to make space, even on your busiest days
Tiny habits that make a huge difference when you’re stressed and overwhelmed
Busyness is not a badge of honour.
If your schedule is packed every day, if you never have time or space to think, slow down, to take care of yourself or to have fun, you need to reorganise your life.
To be at our best, we all need time and space to dream, to explore, to connect with friends and family — and to play.
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old,” said the writer George Bernard Shaw. “We grow old because we stop playing.”
Sometimes, a packed schedule is unavoidable.
We all have deadlines, projects to get over the line, times when we have to go all-in. In times like these, get into the habit of stealing spaces, of taking micro-breaks.
Find ways of bringing yourself back into the present moment, of stretching out time and getting out of your head and back into your body.
It needn’t take long.
And it will probably save you time. When things get hectic, it’s easy to get caught on the hamster wheel, frantically doing tasks that aren’t really…
