Much needed work breaks

I needed to get my mind a bit right again yesterday so I took a break in the afternoon to go to the gym and unleash some steam. It was a really nice moment for me to unwind for an hour after a stressful morning. It’s really easy to spiral when your mind is not in the right headspace and that’s not productive for my health nor my work product.

Taking a break to work out always gets me in a much better mindset. Sometimes I just need to step away from the screen for a bit and burn off some steam whether that’s through meditation, a walk, or working out. I had been doing this since even the early days of my career working 70+ hour weeks.

My coworkers thought I was crazy going to take a break at 5pm to come back to the office at 6:30. Afterall, that’s an extra hour and half of work that could be done and some extra sleep. But I always found that I was almost always more productive after I got back. That project that would have taken me an hour could take me 20 minutes. Or that problem I was stuck on was suddenly not a problem anymore.

Yesterday, when I got back to the office, it was business as usual and I felt reinvigorated and ready to grind again. Things are trending on the up and up heading into the weekend. I just need to have all my brain cells in-tact to take advantage of the opportunities.