Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to name your breaks.

Taking regular breaks during the workday

tends to make people more productive,

and we tend to take things more seriously

when they have formal names.

Naming your breaks just might nudge you

to actually take them.

Today's tip comes from a participant in my recent Better Workday Challenge.

As part of my next book, currently called Big Time,

I had hundreds of people implement some strategies that I believe can help anyone improve their time at work.

One of those strategies is to take two short breaks each day,

where you do something restorative. I had people try this out and report back on how it went.

One person mentioned that she was naming her breaks. Think things like the morning walk or afternoon tea time.

Giving her breaks names meant that she wasn't just taking a half-hearted break by checking

personal email in between Zoom meetings. She knew it was time to go take her morning walk.

I know people take breaks in lots of different ways, but I absolutely

love this idea. In an eight-hour day, it might be good to take one mid-morning break,

a lunch break, and then a mid-afternoon break. Lunch already has a name.

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