082: The Importance of Breaks

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Are you good at taking breaks? Do you feel guilty taking breaks? Do you feel like they are a waste of time? Many of us skip breaks, just trying to push through and be as efficient as possible. Skipping out on breaks isn’t good for your productivity or overall happiness at work & at home. Today, we’re talking about the importance of taking breaks and the types of breaks that will make us feel happier each day.

What’s In This Episode:

Increasing your productivity with breaks
Scheduling well-timed breaks for mental clarity
Understanding the types of breaks you really want to take
Five categories of breaks you’ll want to implement into your day
Ways to have a greener workspace to incorporate nature into your day

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 7 of Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on using
0:07.5	productivity not just to get more done, but to accomplish what's most important. Join Tanya this
0:12.8	season as she focuses on cultivating happiness through the power of productivity. To get her
0:17.4	free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to inkwellpress.com slash podcast.
0:24.6	And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:27.7	Hello, hello, everyone.
0:29.5	Welcome to Productivity Paradox.
0:31.6	I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inkwell Press, and this is episode 82.
0:37.3	This season, we're talking about cultivating
0:39.8	happiness through productivity. So today's topic really feeds into that because we're going to
0:45.3	be talking about the importance of breaks. A lot of people just push through trying to be as
0:51.6	productive as possible, pushing ourselves to the limits,
0:55.0	and maybe even putting in overtime. And they're not really taking breaks. And that's not
1:00.5	really good for your productivity and not good for your happiness either. And then even if you do
1:06.8	take breaks, either you feel guilty about doing it or you feel like they were a waste of time.
1:12.2	And instead, what I want us to do is I want us to really understand why we need to take breaks
1:17.0	and then figure out the types of breaks that we really want to have that make us feel happier.
1:23.8	Have you ever felt like more time spent means that you're more productive?
1:29.0	It's really not true. We really do need breaks.
1:33.5	But being a workaholic and being busy and hustling, those are often celebrated in our society.
1:41.1	But here's the sad truth. If you aren't really taking breaks, you're actually hurting and
1:46.2	decreasing your productivity rather than improving it. So today I really want us to focus on the
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