I was thinking today as I had a lot of stuff to do where usually my habit is to finish everything at once before taking a break of sort. Usually when you are in the zone and focused on the task I find that taking a break can kind of kill the flow or momentum that I have. For whatever reason I decided to take a traditional break today in between my workflow and it made me think how much more time it takes to finish the task.<\/p>\n
For example, having to reboot everything back, remembering where you last left off, etc. I guess in many ways that\u2019s why people do things such as leaving everything on, but in general I felt that I lost the momentum too which made me work slower. Do you ever think of things like this when it comes to taking breaks while working?<\/p>\n
Oddly enough I was even thinking back at many jobs I actually preferred to work the whole shift if possible and get off early even though the companies technically are not supposed to do that. For example, if it was a six hour shift with a half hour break many times I preferred to work like five and half hours and then leave in the last thirty minutes as if that was my break. For myself anyways I always had a lot of energy to go through it this way.<\/p>\n
Even there I often found that taking the break and going back kind of makes you lose that energy as if you have been sitting on a bench too long during a sports game. Obviously working for others you should probably abide by standards as to not get them into trouble even if you can do it. But how about in a self-employed environment where you are your own boss? Which do you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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