Mastering the ten-minute micro break

The world is awash with productivity literature imploring us to find ways we can cut down on the unnecessary activities in our work life, squeeze every ounce out of every second of every day and essentially wanting us to behave a little like machines.

We’re not machines. Even if we were we recognise that the most precious machines in our lives tend not to function without being given regular care and attention. Eventually they too break.

It’s easy and tempting sometimes for us to go without proper sleep, to eat poorly, to skip exercise all to meet a critical project deadline. We promise that we’ll somehow make it up to ourselves but this is rarely true even if it was actually possible.

In today’s article / podcast we’re looking at the concept of micro-breaks, rather than working ourselves to the point of burnout and then trying to restore engine health, how we can built vital ten minutes micro-breaks into our day and really see and use them as a means to improve productivity.

We're geared to see downtime as wasteful, but as you'll hear in this podcast, research backs up the power of the microbreak in our workplace performance.   To read more this in blog format head over to www.theenergyleader.com where you can also reach me directly.