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Welcome to Before Breakfast,

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Good morning.

This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to take breaks intentionally. We are going to take breaks during the workday,

whether we plan to or not. So it pays to take them mindfully. That way you will be aware that

you actually took breaks and probably be more refreshed as a result. I recently ran a better workday

challenge during which I taught participants strategies for making their work days

more pleasant. One of these strategies was to take intentional breaks. The idea is that for 10

minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the afternoon, you pause your work, step away from your

screen, and do something totally different.

Maybe you go to the break room and chat with your work best friend, or make a cup of peppermint tea.

Maybe you work on a crossword puzzle, or you might just go outside and take a few breaths of fresh air.

Whatever it is, the point is to

shift your focus and do something that will refresh you. This all sounds good, but some better

workday challenge participants soon realized that there was a fine line between being on a break and just being off task.

This especially happened when the person was doing something not work-related, but at their computer.

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