The Take a Break Routine

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In my book, i talk about the take a brak routine, which is seven minutes. And maybe your thing is doing te sodoku puzzles, or maybe it's jotting in a journal. But you have to have those materials ready to go. I happen to enjoy reading about history, so i always have a book laing around. Hor even just for seven minutes, i'll pick up a book and start reading it. It just takes me away from all the distractions on how i solve these things. When you ponder things for seven minutes without doing any work at all, it allows your brain to reset and think about what's really important. Then when you're done with that

This week I had a great conversation with John Brandon focused on his new book, The 7-Minute Productivity Solution: How to Manage Your Schedule, Overcome Distractions, and Achieve the Results You Want. This was an excellent discussion on the power of taking just seven minutes out of key moments of your day in order to more effectively plan for your day, achieve moments of self-reflection, and remove oneself from digital distractions and ubiquitous media and technology that is robbing us of achieving our goals and living a more productive and fulfilling lifestyle.

John Brandon has written over 15,000 articles for major publications like Inc. Magazine and Forbes, Wired, Popular Mechanics, Entrepreneur, TechRadar, Popular Science. For the last 10 years before starting at Forbes, he wrote a daily column for Inc.com.

His new book is The 7-Minute Productivity Solution: How to Manage Your Schedule, Overcome Distraction, and Achieve the Results You Want

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