Taking a break
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Early on this week, I saw that the week was getting away from me, but I thought I might be able to find time to share some insight later in the week so I didn’t make a formal announcement that I’d be away for a week. Well it has been a week and I never did get around to writing. I apologize. This week has led me to contemplate the importance of taking a break every now and then. If you don’t, you may find yourself ending up on a forced one.
With Christmas coming, a season that guarantees that your busy schedule will get even busier, it’s important to give yourself plenty of moments to relax. The key is to start early of course, but sometimes you have to admit that you just can’t juggle everything, no matter how hard you try, and take some extra days off. I took yesterday off from work and even though I only managed to do two tasks, these are tasks that I didn’t have to work into today’s to do list and it has been nice.
How can you tell that you need a break?
You feel exhausted
This is an easy indicator: if everything you need to do makes you mentally exhausted, or if you’re physically exhausted from the frantic pace you have been keeping for the past while, you need some time off.
You resent the tasks you once enjoyed
(Ok, maybe you didn’t ever enjoy them, but at least you saw them as necessary things that had to be done and as a result you did them). If suddenly the thought of doing things you normally do without a problem fills you with dread, you probably need some time away from doing much of anything, to recharge your batteries.
It’s always on your mind
Finally, if it starts taking over your life, it’s time to step back. If all of a suddenly your every thought revolves about the things you need to do and haven’t done, you start dreaming about it and thinking about it, it’s time to step away before it consumes you. When you come back to it—and your busy life—you will be better able to deal with it.
Don’t be too proud or strong to take a break. We are all human and we all need to take time to rest every now and then. Life is busy, we are busy and we need to recognize that we can’t keep our fast paced lives going without taking time to recharge every now and again.
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