Taking a dose of my own work/life balance medicine tonight and not going to finish the post for tomorrow. Posting a publishing schedule has been good to force me to write this series, but I think this is the perfect opportunity to put the balance idea into affect. We should be resuming next week with the post Reduce Screen Time. See you then!

(If you haven’t read them all you can still catch up on the work/life balance series up to this point!)

Or, read one of these:

1. Reduce Screen Time
2. The 2011 Apt Design Ebook – Creating Work/Life Balance
3. You Need a Break

But I do think breaks are important.  There are two types I’d like to mention which are important for your business (whether you are an owner or an employee).

The Full-Day Work Break

This kind of break lets you escape the normal routine and confines of the workday, just for a day, and can help your company tremendously.  The idea here is to get out of the office, away from your tasks and phone calls, but to still let your mind drift to work-related thoughts.

Getting out of your normal environment can help your brain do the same thing.  Not bringing email or a phone with you helps keep you distraction free.  Now you can have time to think of bigger-picture problems in a different way, and hopefully see new solutions.
Some sort of exercise helps stimulate thought as well.  As your body is engaged let your mind drift to work-related issues and you may see complicated problems begin to simplify and bound up topics begin to unravel.

Take along a piece of paper or a journal and record the solutions you think of during this full-day work break.  Make it like a brainstorming session for the general direction of your company – no answer is wrong.  Later you can go back and find the ideas that were completely off-the-wall and the ones that have break-inspired genius.

The No-Work Vacation

Sometimes the full-out vacation is the best medicine for both you and your business.  Take a huge break, get away from everything work-related both physically and mentally.  Get out of the office, out of the city, out of the state.

What a relief it can be to get away from everything and just do what you love to do best.  Immerse yourself totally in the enjoyment of camping, watching movies, playing with your kids, boating, or whatever.  The vacation can help you remember what you love in life and why you work in the first place.

What about now?  Why not take a quick break now?  Get up and look out the window and take a few deep breaths.  Come back renewed and ready to tackle problems from a different perspective.

Or, read one of these:

1. Series Break

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