Taking Breaks

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 14 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.

For show notes go to HackingYourADHD.com/breaks

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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.
0:08.2	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:12.2	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your
0:17.2	ADHD brain.
0:19.2	We all know that one of the biggest hurdles from ADHD is starting, but paradoxically,
0:23.9	one of the other hurdles is stopping.
0:26.1	Sometimes it feels like we're better off if we just power through until we're done,
0:29.5	but if we really want to get the most out of our work day, we need to be taking some
0:32.6	breaks.
0:33.8	In today's episode, we're going to be looking at the benefits of taking breaks, some of the different ways that we can take breaks, and of course ways that we shouldn't be taking breaks.
0:41.5	And we'll also be exploring the idea of going beyond breaks and actually taking some time off.
0:46.2	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at Hacking Your ADHD.com slash breaks.
0:53.7	All right, keep on listening to find out why you should be taking more breaks.
1:04.7	One of the hardest things for me to try and build into my schedule is time when I'm not working.
1:09.4	And I know that sounds odd because why am I scheduling time when I'm not working. And I know that sounds odd, because why am I
1:11.0	scheduling time when I'm not working? But the truth is that we do need to take breaks. While our
1:16.0	mind tells us that we might want to just push through our entire day and get as much done as possible,
1:20.5	that isn't actually the best way to get as much done as possible. In fact, it's one of the worst
1:24.7	ways, and that's because there are actually a lot of benefits to taking breaks.
1:28.3	When we take breaks, it separates our workflow into more manageable chunks.
1:32.0	We can figure out what we need to be working on at a certain time and just do that one thing.
1:36.5	I know I've talked about this before where when I know what I'm working on, I can focus on doing just that one thing. And when I can focus on doing just one thing, then I know when I'm
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