Taking Breaks (rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We all know that one of the biggest hurdles from ADHD is starting, but paradoxically one of our other hurdles is stopping. Sometimes it feels like we're better off if we just power through until we're done, but if we really want to get the most out of our workdays, we need to have some breaks.

In today's episode, we're going to be looking at the benefits of taking breaks, some different ways that we can take breaks, and also exploring going beyond breaks and actually taking some time off.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Taking breaks allows us to separate our work into more manageable chunks. They let us refresh and come to our tasks with more energy.
We should be scheduling our breaks so that we don't forget to take them. To help out our future selves we should also be planning what we want to be doing on those breaks as well.
As important as knowing what we are doing on our breaks, we should also know what we shouldn't be doing on our breaks. Avoid things like phone games and social media that are going to be hard to tear yourself away from at the end of your break.
It's also important to take time off entirely from work to recharge your batteries. While it might be hard to take a traditional vacation right now, we can still work on thinking about other ways that we can take time off, like working on fun projects at home or just taking a few days to catch up on Netflix.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.1	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:11.3	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:17.8	Hey, team, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be taking a few weeks off.
0:21.6	We all know that one of the biggest hurdles from ADHD is starting, but paradoxically,
0:26.2	one of the other hurdles is stopping. Sometimes it feels like we're better off if we just
0:30.6	power through until we're done, but if we really want to get the most out of our days,
0:34.7	sometimes we need to take a break. One of my goals with this podcast
0:37.9	is to try and model the behavior that I talk about. So that's what I'm doing today by bringing
0:42.4	back this episode from the archives. In today's episode, we're going to be looking at the
0:46.6	benefits of taking breaks, some different ways for taking breaks, and also exploring what it
0:51.0	means to go beyond breaks and actually take some time off. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash breaks.
1:01.3	Before we get started, I also wanted to give a huge shout out to all you listeners
1:04.8	because hacking your ADHD just past a milestone of one million downloads.
1:09.7	So that's the cumulative downloads from all the
1:11.7	episodes. This comes at the two-year anniversary of the podcast. This is absolutely something that
1:16.9	couldn't have happened without all of you, so thank you to everyone listening, and again,
1:20.8	thank you for everyone recommending the show to their friends and family. I'm planning on doing
1:24.7	a celebration later in the year, maybe an AMNA on Zoom, or, you know, I'm not sure.
1:29.2	So if you've got an idea of a good way to celebrate, feel free to send me a message over at hackingyouradhd.com
1:34.9	slash contact, or maybe hit me up on the Twitters.
1:37.9	All right, keep on listening to find out why you should be taking more breaks.
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